Recent financial disclosures make clear that the lion’s share of the outside spending supporting state Sen. Becca Balint's run came from a single million-dollar donation.
The congressional candidate has accused her chief rival of potentially illegal coordination with an outside group. Balint’s team has argued the lieutenant governor’s campaign is trying to make a commonplace campaign practice appear sinister.
The spending blitz has touched off a debate about who can claim moral high ground on money in politics when both campaigns have now raised just shy of $1 million.
According to campaign finance reports, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch’s Senate campaign has recently accepted multi-thousand-dollar donations from the medical, agricultural, real estate and retail industries.
In enforcing campaign finance laws, it is not unusual for the Federal Election Commission to occasionally seek clarification from campaigns on discrepancies in their finance reports. Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy’s campaign has until Jan. 12 to respond.
The Republican Governors Association violated Vermont law by accepting campaign contributions that exceeded state limits, the Vermont Superior Court ruled last week. In an earlier ruling, the RGA was found […]
Republican Heidi Scheuermann and Democrat Paul Ralston launch group to help fund legislative candidates who share their vision on economic development.
Rounding out a hat trick of recent settlements with political action committees (PACs), Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell announced Tuesday that Planned Parenthood of Northern New England will pay the […]
Sorrell has consistently maintained that he broke no laws, and didn’t illegally co-ordinate his campaign with an outside Super PAC funded by the Democratic Attorney Generals Association.
Vermont Sec’y of State Jim Condos announces all October 15th campaign finance filings are on-line
A VTDigger analysis found that Democratic leaning groups dominate the state's 36 active political action committees.
