financial disclosure

Here's the latest Knox County Democratic Party financial disclosure amended for the 2nd quarter. It shows a total of $47,950 in expenditures related to the Truman Day Dinner, featuring James Carville.

Here's the charter petition group's second quarter financial disclosure. Some prominent people wrote some big checks. On the disbursement side, having two colors for petitions cost them a premium.

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The Campaign of Congressman Davis got everyone in a tizzy yesterday claiming in a press release that his opponent, Phil Roe, had used the services of a lobbying shop headed up by former Democratic campaign chairman Randy Button.

From our good conservative Republicans comes this presser:

A confederation of conservative Republican state legislators tonight are rebuking a fellow caucus member calling on him to return an unusual donation to his reelection campaign account. Recently filed campaign finance reports for freshman Rep.

1st District Congressman David Davis, a Republican, earns a place in the Top Ten members of congress for spending tax dollars on campaign-boosting mailers to potential voters in his district. Of course his glossy mailers are labeled "official business", but the mail was being sent out as his re-election efforts got under full swing.

Mike Byrd is distressed at the lack of financial disclosure from Eric Crafton’s English First petition drive:

According to the Tennessean:

The clip attracted a large audience on YouTube after Obama criticized it Monday. At 1:50 p.m., it had been viewed more than 290,000 times; by 3:30, the number approached 483,000. [It's over 664,000 as of 5/19/08 at 12:30 p.m. Central]

The Sunlight Foundation defends its calculation of Senator Bob Corker’s net worth:

Some serious truth in the following paragraphs from Matt Miller at The Atlantic.com. This is what any candidate for school board is facing.