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MAGA Inc
MAGA Inc. or "Make America Great Again Inc." (founded September 23, 2022) is an American Super PAC that supports former US president Donald Trump. As a Super PAC it can raise unlimited money for campaigns and spend it freely to support Trump but it is barred from coordinating directly with presidential campaigns. History 2022 A Statement of Organization was filed with the Federal Election Commission on September 23, 2022, for Make America Great Again Inc. as an independent expenditure-only political committee ( Super PAC) that is supporting former US president Donald Trump, and is located in Alexandria, Virginia. Distinct from Trump's existing Save America leadership PAC which had served as his chief fundraising vehicle, as a Super PAC it can raise unlimited money for campaigns and spend it freely to support him. But it is barred from coordinating directly with campaigns. Taylor Budowich, a 26-year-old former aide of Trump, was named the group's executive director. In June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt is an American political aide who previously served as an assistant press secretary and presidential writer during the Donald Trump administration. In 2022, she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 1st district, becoming the second member of Generation Z to win a congressional primary. She lost the general election to incumbent Chris Pappas. She currently serves as the national press secretary for Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. Early life and education Karoline Leavitt was born and raised in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Her family owned a local ice cream shop and a used truck dealership in Plaistow, New Hampshire. She attended Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts and then pursued higher education at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in communications and political science; she also played NCAA Division II college softball. Leavitt worked at Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Laxalt
Adam Paul Laxalt (; born August 31, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Nevada in 2018 and for the U.S. Senate in 2022. Laxalt is the son of former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico and grandson of former Nevada governor and U.S. senator Paul Laxalt. He graduated from Georgetown University and its law school before working as an aide to then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John R. Bolton and Virginia U.S. Senator John Warner. He worked as a lawyer in private practice and was a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps from 2005 to 2010. Elected in 2014, Laxalt served one term as the attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019. In that role, he filed legal briefs in support of laws restricting abortion, challenged federal environmental protection regulations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Masters
Blake Gates Masters (born August 5, 1986) is an American venture capitalist and political candidate. Frequently referred to as a protégé of businessman Peter Thiel, Sources that call Masters a protégé of Thiel include: * * * * Masters co-wrote '' Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future'' with Thiel in 2014, based on notes Masters had taken at Stanford Law School in 2012. He was later chief operating officer of Thiel's investment firm, Thiel Capital, and also president of the Thiel Foundation. In the 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona, Masters defeated state Attorney General Mark Brnovich and businessman Jim Lamon in the August 2 primary to become the Republican Party nominee. Throughout his campaign, he aligned himself with Thiel and former president Donald Trump, both of whom endorsed him in June 2022. Masters benefited from $15 million in funding from Thiel during the primary campaign but was dramatically outspent in the general election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kelly
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, former astronaut, and United States Navy captain who has served as the junior United States senator from Arizona since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in the special election held following the death of Senator John McCain, defeating incumbent Republican Martha McSally. Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War as a naval aviator before being selected as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot in 1996. He flew his first space mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108, piloted STS-121 in 2006, and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 in 2011, the final mission of Space Shuttle ''Endeavour''. His identical twin, Scott Kelly, is also a retired astronaut; they are the only siblings to have both traveled into orbit. Kelly's wife, then-Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, was shot and nearly killed in an assassination attempt on January 8, 2011. Six people died in the Tucson shooting. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fetterman
John Karl Fetterman (born August 15, 1969) is an American politician who is the United States senator-elect from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he has also served as the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania since 2019. Fetterman was the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania from 2006 to 2019. Generally described as a progressive, Fetterman advocates healthcare as a right, criminal justice reform, abolishing capital punishment, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and legalizing cannabis. Beginning his professional career in the insurance industry, Fetterman studied finance at Albright College and earned an MBA from the University of Connecticut. He went on to join AmeriCorps and earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard. Fetterman's service with AmeriCorps led him to Braddock, where he moved in 2004 and was elected mayor the next year. As mayor, Fetterman sought to revitalize the former steel town through art and youth programs. Fett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock ( ; born July 23, 1969) is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 20, 2021. Since 2005, Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Georgia), Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was the senior pastor of Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Douglas Memorial Community Church until 2005. Warnock came to prominence in Georgia politics as a leading Activism, activist in the campaign to Medicaid coverage gap, expand Medicaid in the state under the Affordable Care Act. On January 30, 2020, Warnock announced his candidacy in 2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia, Georgia's 2020 United States Senate special election, seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Beal
Daniel Andrew Beal (born November 29, 1952) is an American banker, businessman, investor, and amateur mathematician. He is a Dallas-based businessman who accumulated wealth in real estate and banking. Born and reared in Lansing, Michigan, Beal is founder and chairman of Beal Bank and Beal Bank USA, as well as other affiliated companies. According to ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index'', Beal has an estimated worth of US$9.49 billion as of December 2021. A number theorist, Beal is also known for the Beal conjecture, a mathematical generalization of Fermat's Last Theorem. He has funded a $1 million standing prize for its proof or disproof. His banks sponsor two annual science and technology fairs affiliated with the International Science & Engineering Fair. Beal participated in some high-stakes poker games in the mid-2000s that were the subject of a book. Early life and education Beal grew up in Lansing, Michigan, where his mother worked in state government, and his father was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Mellon
Timothy Mellon (born July 22, 1942) is an American businessman, and the chairman and majority owner of Pan Am Systems, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based transportation holding company. He is a grandson of Andrew W. Mellon and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. Early life The son of Paul Mellon and his first wife, Mary Conover Brown, Timothy Mellon holds a degree in city planning from Yale University. He is the grandson of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Career He was the chief financier in the 1977 formation of Guilford Transportation Industries (GTI), a holding company named for his native Guilford, Connecticut. In 1981, GTI purchased the Maine Central Railroad from U.S. Filter Corporation, adding the Boston and Maine Corporation, Boston & Maine and Delaware and Hudson Railway, Delaware & Hudson railroads in 1983 and 1984, respectively, and in 1998 purchased the brand of bankrupt Pan American World Airways. The Pan Am name was subsequently succeeded by "Pan Am Clipper Conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Money
The financing of electoral campaigns in the United States happens at the federal, state, and local levels by contributions from individuals, corporations, political action committees, and sometimes the government. Campaign spending has risen steadily at least since 1990 (for example the average campaign spending for a candidate who won an election to the House of Representatives in 1990 spent $407,600, while the average winner thirty years later spent $2.35 million (approximately $1 million adjusted for inflation); in the Senate, average spending for winning candidates went from $3.87 to $27.16 million (about $13.71 million adjusted for inflation)). In 2020, nearly $14 billion was spent on federal election campaigns in the United States -- "making it the most expensive campaign in U.S. history", "more than double" what was spent in the 2016 election. Critics complain that following a number of Supreme Court decisions -- ''Citizens United v. FEC (2010)'' in particular—the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Election Campaign Act
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA, , ''et seq.'') is the primary United States federal law regulating political campaign fundraising and spending. The law originally focused on creating limits for campaign spending on communication media, adding additional penalties to the criminal code for election law violations, and imposing disclosure requirements for federal political campaigns. The Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on February 7, 1972. In 1974, the act was amended to create the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and to further regulate campaign spending. The act was amended again in 1976, in response to the provisions ruled unconstitutional by '' Buckley v. Valeo,'' including the structure of the FEC and the limits on campaign expenditures, and again in 1979 to allow parties to spend unlimited amounts of hard money on activities like increasing voter turnout and registration. In 1979, the FEC ruled that political parties could spend unreg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campaign Legal Center
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) government watchdog group in the United States. CLC supports strong enforcement of United States campaign finance laws. Trevor Potter, former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is CLC's founding president. Activities In 2004, it was a party to complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission against groups like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and America Coming Together, for trying to directly influence federal elections. In 2006, CLC testified before Congress in support of reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act (VRA). CLC was critical of former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards's use of charity organizations which he had founded, complaining they were being used chiefly to keep himself in the public eye in preparation for a possible 2008 presidential run. The group filed an amicus brief in the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case ''Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission'', unsuccess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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