Darcy Richardson Running A Serious Progressive Challenge To Barack Obama
Unlike Vermin Supreme, who is running a satirical campaign for President, Darcy Richardson is running a serious presidential campaign with a direct message: Barack Obama is not a good choice for...
View ArticleLike Unity08, Americans Elect Dishes out Iowa/New Hampshire Rhetoric that...
Past as Prelude: Unity08 and the Story of Big Bad Iowa & New Hampshire In the 2008 election cycle, the presidential bid called Unity08 started off its appeal for an online presidential nomination...
View ArticleFix The Debt Gets Caught Impersonating a State Senator in Letter to the...
“Fix the Debt,” a front group for billionaire social security privatization fanatic Peter G. Peterson, has been caught red handed by the New Hampshire Alliance for Retired Americans in a case of letter...
View ArticleVirginia Professional Political Operative Hires Massachusetts Firm To Set Up...
Has political campaign finance just become the stuff of science fiction? During the waning days of Star Trek: The Next Generation, ensign Wesley Crusher returned to the starship Enterprise, only to be...
View ArticleOpportunity
In the southbound lane of the long, high metal and asphalt bridge over the Piscataqua River that divides New Hampshire from Maine, a grate covers a storm-water drain. Out of that drain, a lone...
View ArticleMayDay PAC Candidate Fails
The MayDay PAC, run by Lawrence Lessig, was established with the idea that it would support ethical reform in campaign finance, by providing enough funding to elect political candidates with integrity...
View ArticleDid the “Single Issue” Mayday PAC fund Canvassers on ObamaCare, Gun Rights...
A tip of the hat this morning to Miscellany Blue and DocDawg for breaking the news over the past week that Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday PAC had funnelled $103,000 to Stark 360, a political action committee...
View ArticleFollow the Mystery Money: Mayday PAC Props Up Conservative Stark360 Politicians
Do you remember the Mayday PAC, the Super PAC unregulated political corporation that promised to get big money out of politics? Do you remember when its leadership — Americans Elect alums libertarian...
View ArticleScott Brown Senate Campaign Uses Big Data Tools That Spy On You
Yesterday an organization called B-PAC spent $125,000 in one pop in an effort to cripple the re-election of U.S Senator Scott Brown. The $125,000 was spent, says the brief filing submitted to the FEC,...
View ArticleThe MayDay Super PAC Returns
“Embrace The Irony.” Remember that phrase? It was the phrase that Lawrence Lessig used to launch a big-money-gathering political action committee called the MayDay Super PAC in 2014. The publicly...
View ArticleParry! Riposte!
Political banter should be scored somehow, maybe as they do it in fencing, maybe as they do it in the Olympics. An exchange like this should be given a special name, like “triple salchow”:
View ArticleThe OTHER Democratic Presidential Candidates In New Hampshire
The corporate news media depicts the New Hampshire Democratic primary as being between just two candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernies Sanders. There are actually 28 Democratic candidates on the...
View ArticleBen Carson Prophecy Of Doom Comes To Pass
A little bit over a year ago, right wing activist John Philip Sousa IV bragged to us at Irregular Times that Ben Carson was going to win the Republican presidential nomination. He boasted that, “The...
View ArticleReality Check: Hillary Clinton Won The New Hampshire Primary
Yes, it’s true that Bernie Sanders got over 60 percent of the popular vote in yesterday’s Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire. That’s nice. It’s impressive. Bernie Sanders got to give a...
View ArticleHow’s that Whole Black-Voters-Love-Donald-Trump Thing Going? Iowa and NH Exit...
A month ago, a visitor to Irregular Times referenced a poll indicating that only a small minority of black Americans supported Donald Trump to declare that “the minority groups are supporting Donald...
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