Have you ever worked a full month without any scheduled days off? If so, congratulations -- you're not a member of Congress! America's favorite lawmaking body is going on Spring Break Part 2 -- because the first one seemed pretty fun -- taking the next week off to rest from all their exhausting labors -- not passing any sort of gun legislation, letting the sequester wreak havoc on the economy and continually ignoring budget negotiations have really taken its toll on our lawmakers. But if there's one thing we can count on Congress to do well, it's fundraising of course! ...
After this past week, America really needs a party to cheer up. Answering the call, several members of Congress are planning fundraising events as the 2014 races heat up -- and maybe some early rumblings of 2016. In fact, the PT calendar shows almost 30 parties happening next week! From Republicans to Democrats, incumbents to candidates, everyone is looking to stuff their coffers for the upcoming elections. Boy, the cycle seems to start earlier and earlier... Without further ado, next week's funders coming up! Obama Partying in Dallas for the DNC President Obama will be in Texas next week for ...
Early this morning, the Committee Formerly Known As Obama's Campaign, Organizing for Action, reported hauling in just under $4.9 million for the first quarter of 2013, an amount that the Los Angeles Times dubbed "a modest debut." What a world we live in where $5 million dollars is considered "modest" and not "an absurdly gargantuan mountain of cash." What's even more impressive is that OFA started late into the cycle, missing an entire month as the committee transitioned from a campaign to the non-profit "social welfare" group it is now. It's worth noting ...
While the national debate on gun control continues, Maryland Del. Don Dwyer, a conservative Republican from Anne Arundel County, is making his position known by holding a fundraiser and raffling off two high-powered assault rifles. The event, known as "Delegate Dwyer's Gun Rights and Liberty BBQ Gun Raffle, Auction & Strategy Meeting," takes place on May 11 at Kurtz Beach in Pasadena, Md., but the weapons won't be handed out until July 6. Lucky winners will either receive an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle, the same weapon used in the Aurora, Colo. shootings, or an AK-47 assault rifle. MORE: Sunlight's research ...
Famed Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert died yesterday, taking with him the vast majority of mankind's opinion on film. Whether he was critiquing bombs like Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo ("Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks."), or praising an all-time great like Citizen Kane ("It is one of the miracles of cinema that in 1941 a first-time director; a cynical, hard-drinking writer; an innovative cinematographer, and a group of New York stage and radio actors were given the keys to a studio and total control, and made a masterpiece."), Ebert will ...