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A super PAC that focuses on electing Democrats to the U.S. House reserved nearly $10 million worth of broadcast ad time in Oregon as Democrats try to flip Oregon’s 5th Congressional District and keep Democratic incumbents in two swing districts in Oregon and Washington.
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As the legislature debated campaign finance limits last month, Oregon’s richest man quietly gave another $2 million to a political action committee that tries to elect Republicans to the statehouse. Such a contribution would be barred under a just-passed bill that Gov. Kotek has said she'll sign.
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Independent expenditure committees funded by special interest groups are spending millions of dollars to make their picks in the California primary. In some races, they are clearly supporting or opposing candidates. In others, the strategy is more complicated.
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This upcoming June primary is the first chance to see the effects of new local campaign finance limits in California set by Assembly bill 571. Shasta County provides a window into how local elections are impacted by the change.
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Former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof is no longer able to run for Oregon governor, but he still has over $1 million in his campaign war chest. It remains to be seen what Kristof does with that cash.
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Justices have declined to hear a challenge that might have paved the way for a measure on the November ballot.
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After Secretary of State Shemia Fagan bounced three proposals to cap political donations, one state senator says he'll try to convince colleagues to put a similar measure before voters.
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Secretary of State Shemia Fagan says three proposed ballot measures dealing with campaign cash don't pass constitutional muster. Two more contain the same problem, supporters admit.
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After talks between left-leaning organizations broke down, three groups have filed competing proposals for reining in political spending.
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Following months of negotiations, labor unions and advocacy groups did not sign onto a plan for creating new campaign regulations.
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Oregon Sen. Betsy Johnson, a longtime Democratic legislator running as an unaffiliated candidate, has raised more than $2 million in her bid to become the next governor of Oregon, according to new campaign finance reports.
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Kristof's campaign touted thousands of small donors from Oregon, but new filings also show he's attracting big money from some very well known names.
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The 29-year-old Republican, famed for preventing a terrorist attack in 2015, is once again running to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio.
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Bills to limit political contributions always faced an uphill battle in 2021. Now, a less contentious proposal to publicly finance campaigns faces skepticism in the Senate.