Accountability | Montana
As State Auditor, Rosendale Was Out to Lunch, or Just Out
Montana State Auditor Matt Rosendale missed what amounts to 12 weeks of work in 2017 and the first five months of this year, according to his official calendars, raising questions about his performance in his current job as he seeks a promotion to the U.S. Senate.
Accountability | California
Mimi Walters Owns Stake in Brokerage Firm That Hired Shady Advisers, Including a Sex Predator
Rep. Mimi Walters, R-Calif., jointly owns a stock brokerage firm with her husband that has raised red flags on Wall Street by employing a large number of brokers with checkered pasts, including a convicted child molester.
Accountability | Florida
Records Raise Questions About Tax Dollars Paying for DeSantis’s 2016 Horowitz Speech
Ron DeSantis’s congressional office spent hundreds of dollars for travel around the time he attended a 2016 conference sponsored by a right-wing figure with a history of racist rhetoric, raising new questions about whether taxpayers paid for the trip.
Accountability | Florida
Curbelo Preaches Respect for Journalists but Took Thousands From Colleague Who Assaulted Reporter
In recent days, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., has criticized President Donald Trump’s vitriol toward the media, but campaign-finance records show Curbelo took thousands of dollars from a colleague who physically assaulted a journalist last year. In August. Curbelo took a $2,700 campaign contribution from Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., who was charged with assaulting a Guardian reporter attempting to ask him questions on the eve of a special election.
Accountability | Florida
Scott’s PAC Still Taking Potentially Illegal Contributions from Private Prison Company
A super PAC affiliated with Florida Gov. Rick Scott has continued accepting potentially illegal contributions from America's largest private prison company, despite coming under fire for the potential campaign finance law violation earlier this year.
Accountability | New Jersey
Records: Hugin Gave More Than $570K to Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBT Causes
Bob Hugin has consistently claimed to be a “different kind of Republican,” who supports marriage equality and a woman’s right to choose. But campaign-finance and nonprofit records — as well as Hugin’s past rhetoric — tell a different story, showing he and his wife contributed more than $570,000 in the last decade to various anti-abortion and anti-LGBT candidates and organizations across the country.
Education | Montana
Rosendale Calls to Eliminate Education Department, And the $481M It Sent to Mont. Last Year
Matt Rosendale has called to eliminate the federal Department of Education, which last year provided nearly $500 million for Montana’s students — from kindergarten to college — and helps fund thousands of teaching positions.