Posts Tagged ‘Donors’

‘Super’ PACs set to disclose big donors Tuesday (AP)

AP – Get ready to find out who the millionaires are behind this year’s presidential election.

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What donors? Super PACs buy time to keep secrets (AP)

AP – Independent political groups backing top Republican candidates are taking advantage of federal rules that will effectively let them shield the identities of their donors until after key primary elections this month.

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Anonymous donors pay strangers’ layaway accounts (AP)

Kmart store manager Ted Straub talks Thursday Dec 15, 2011 in his  Omaha, Neb store. Dozens of Kmart customers across the country have had their layaways paid off by strangers. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)AP – An Omaha woman plans to head to Kmart, even though a stranger’s kindness has already helped her pay off the layaway bill she accumulated to buy gifts for her grandchildren.


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Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts (AP)

Kmart store manager Ted Straub talks Thursday Dec 15, 2011 in his  Omaha, Neb store. Dozens of Kmart customers across the country have had their layaways paid off by strangers. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)AP – The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children.


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Obama lost many donors from ’08 presidential race (AP)

President Barack Obama has dinner with campaign donors and winners of the  'Dinner with Barack' contest at The Liberty Tavern in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Va., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. From left to right: Ken Knight, U.S. postal worker from Chandler, Ariz.; Wendi Smith, artist and retired professor from Corydon, Ind.; Casey Helbling, enterpreneur from Minneapolis, Minn.; President Obama; Juanita Martinez, retired teacher from Brighton, Colo. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama has lost millions of dollars in support from former donors in Democratic strongholds and in districts that he won narrowly four years ago, according to an Associated Press analysis of the most recent federal campaign finance data.


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Rep. Rangel loses big donors amid ethics scandal

Rep. Charles Rangel has another bitter pill to swallow – some once-loyal big donors, including drug giant Pfizer, are refusing to cough up cash for his birthday bash next week.

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Afghan govt wants donors to support its priorities (AP)

Afghan firefighters hose down the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul,Afghanistan, Sunday, July 18, 2010. A suicide bombing in eastern Kabul killed three civilians on Sunday, two days before an international conference that will host representatives from about 60 nations, an Afghan official said. The bomber was on foot and his target was unclear, police official Abdul Ghafor Sayedzada said. (AP Photo/Hossein Fatemi)AP – At an international conference on Tuesday, the Afghan government will ask donors to put 80 percent of aid money behind programs that the Afghans — not foreign capitals — deem important to development.


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