Political Fundraising

Little attention paid to race in huge community college district

2013-05-18 22:38:00

An incumbent who styles herself as an outsider and a reform-minded community activist and political aide will face each other in a runoff election Tuesday for the final seat on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Unlike the...

L.A. Votes: Villaraigosa weighs in; final vote tally may take weeks

2013-05-17 09:00:00

The election to select Los Angeles' next mayor is Tuesday. But a combination of factors – the large number of Angelenos voting by mail, the apparent tightness of the race and the city clerk’s ballot-counting process – means that the...

Choi and O'Farrell in contentious battle for council seat

2013-05-14 22:57:00

Mitch O'Farrell is probably the only candidate running for Los Angeles City Council who can do a backward handspring, no problem. Before taking a job a decade ago as a field deputy in the office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, O'Farrell, 52, spent years as a...

The real IRS scandal

2013-05-14 17:28:00

It's strange how "scandal" gets defined these days in Washington. At the moment, everyone is screaming about the "scandal" of the Internal Revenue Service scrutinizing conservative nonprofits before granting them tax-exempt status. Here are the...

IRS problem started with vague tax exemption rules

2013-05-16 16:44:00

WASHINGTON — In spring 2010, agents in the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service, which handles applications for tax-exempt status, faced a surge of filings by new advocacy groups, with little guidance on how to treat them. Their...

Greuel has fraction of Garcetti's cash in race's last days, reports show

2013-05-10 07:27:00

Wendy Greuel had roughly one-tenth of the cash on hand�of her rival Eric Garcetti as she headed into the final two weeks of the mayoral election, according to new campaign finance reports. Greuel, the city’s controller, reported raising nearly...

Newton: The mayoral money trap

2013-05-13 00:00:00

There are good reasons for most of the city's campaign finance laws. Individual contribution limits are intended to keep a single donor from purchasing the support of a candidate. Public financing is intended to level the playing field between...

Clinton plays down politics at event in Beverly Hills

2013-05-08 22:58:00

Hours after Republican members of Congress sharply questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the former secretary of State did not explicitly mention the controversy in an...

L.A. Votes: Poll shows dead heat but finance reports show large gap

2013-05-10 08:59:00

With under two weeks to go until election day, the race to become the city’s next mayor is extremely volatile. A new poll shows Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat, a vast improvement for Greuel, who was down by double digits...

With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting

2013-05-13 21:23:00

WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a...

Targeting tax-exempt groups

2013-05-14 00:00:00

One of the great outrages of the Watergate scandal was President Nixon's use of the Internal Revenue Service to harass his political opponents. Yet some IRS officials appear to have forgotten what happens when tax law enforcers pick their targets based on...

Wendy Greuel's campaign coffers low

2013-05-10 21:35:00

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel, after spending heavily on a TV advertising blitz that coincided with the start of early voting, entered the final stretch of the runoff campaign with roughly one-tenth the war chest of rival Eric Garcetti,...

The Naperville Heritage Society has chosen Mike Krol as interim president and CEO of the Naper Settlement. Krol retired in 1999 from a 40-year career with Illinois Bell and Ameritech, most recently as vice president of sales and service for a 14-state area.

2013-05-14 10:43:00

Sen. Rubio (R-Fla.), who was on Mitt Romney's vice presidential short list, saw his national profile soar during the 2012 campaign as he worked as a liaison between the Republican Party and Latinos. Rubio will be in Iowa on Nov. 17 to attend a campaign fundraiser (and birthday party) for Gov.

2012-10-31 00:00:00

The power couple opened the doors of Jay's 40/40 club in Manhattan to host an exclusive fundraiser for President Obama's reelection campaign. Seats went for $40,000 to catch Beyonce introducing the POTUS.

2012-10-26 15:53:53