Tag: Bill Burton
ProPublica Donor Gets Pass—from ProPublica
A spokesman for ProPublica responded Tuesday to charges that the nonprofit journalism outfit devotes most of its investigations to donors of Republican and conservative causes while largely ignoring similarly influential donors on the left end of the political spectrum—including one donor to ProPublica itself.
What Does Jeffrey Katzenberg Want?
Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton repeated Friday the big lie: that Democratic donors don’t ask for anything in return. But the claim by the “money bunny” was quickly rebutted by MSNBC host Alex Wagner and the New York Times’ Nick Confessore, who reported on and published a list of the top fundraisers for Obama’s campaign earlier this week.
Hurricane Mostyn
The pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA has run a coordinated campaign to smear Mitt Romney’s character, even going so far as to suggest he was responsible for the death of a woman by cancer. That campaign has been financed in part by Steve and Amber Mostyn.
Carney on Priorities ad: ‘Essentially had no money behind it’
DWS: ‘I have no idea the political affiliation’ of Obama-affiliated super PAC
Profiles in False Courage
Overlooked in the fallout from the Obama-aligned super PAC Priorities USA’s inaccurate and controversial attack on Mitt Romney is the prior rhetoric of the group’s founder, former Obama White House spokesman Bill Burton, and that of the Obama campaign’s chief strategist, David Axelrod.
Bill Burton: ‘What fact in the ad is wrong?’
Red Capps
Locked in her first tough re-election battle in nearly a decade, California Rep. Lois Capps (D) finds herself under fire from pro-Israel activists for what they say is a lengthy record of hostility towards the Jewish state.