campaign finance fraud

Earlier today, Ami Bera showed up on our list of the worst Democrats in Congress.

For a Saudi billionaire it isn't hard to buy a crooked sieve a seat in CongressWhen I travel I'm still living under the delusion that I have a secretary who will take care of any emergencies that come up, even though I don't. But I'm so used to cutting myself off when I'm away on vacation that the only communication channel I leave open is e-mail.

Same as the last generation conservatives-- steeped in ugly corruptionA few weeks ago I blogged about how I was in the middle of investigating a shady campaign finance situation up in Santa Barbara on behalf of an entitled young right-wing up-and-comer, Justin Fareed.

Please click on the picture to read the funny little adWhat a mess Wall Street's campaign to drag Patrick Murphy into the Senate has turned into! The Finance Industry has already poured more money into Murphy's campaign than into any non-incumbent running for the Senate from either party-- $1,403,150.

The way they finance their campaigns, Donald Norcross and Patrick Murphy are not just dancing with the devil, they're changing costumes, doing flips and ending the routine with a dip and kissWe've been writing for almost a year about how the righteous-sounding PAC, End Citizens United is a scam.

Ibrahim and Patrick-- no photos of Moose availableThis Al-Rashid scandal is starting to burn Patrick Murphy and other politicians who have gotten into bed with him.

Watch the video above, where Steve Kornacki veers ever so slightly away from MSNBC's usual soft ball treatment of Establishment Democrats and freaks out DNC chair, #DebtTrapDebbie Wasserman Schultz, who promptly goes into zombie mode.

Mastermind of DCCC corruption: Steve Israel... with the useful idiotI'm in the middle of an intense investigation of how sleazy Republican Justin Fareed from Santa Barbara is funding his congressional campaign from just a few wealthy families with very special interests involving the healthcare industry.

Presiding over a horrifying culture of corruption she must have learned when she was still a RepublicanCory Doctorow's BoingBoing post about Hillary campaign state-level money laundering shenanigans pointed me to an investigative piece by Margot Kidder that I had missed at Counterpunch,

Patrick Murphy was a lifelong Republican who maxed out in contributions to Mitt Romney and then-Republican Charlie Crist but switched party registration four months before running for Congress as a "Democrat." Predictably-- very predictably-- since getting into Congress, he's amassed one of the most Republican voting records of any Democrat in the House.