United States: labor unions to stop financing electoral campaigns in 2012

One year to the US Presidential election, which will coincide with the House and Senate elections, not all candidates have been officially revealed but their campaigns’ financing has already started.  It already seems that unions’ contributions will be lower than they have been in the past.  Indeed, recent figures, released by the Federal Election Commission on November 11 and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics mention nearly $620 million gathered within the framework of the 2011-2012 “electoral cycle,” less than 19 coming from the union movement, which spent almost 75 in total four years ago – the last time legislative and presidential elections coincided.
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on November 11 and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics mention nearly $620 million gathered within the framework of the 2011-2012 “electoral cycle,” less than 19 coming from the union movement, which spent almost 75 in total four years ago – the last time legislative and presidential elections coincided.

Declaration of independence. Last year, for the legislative elections, labor unions still invested nearly $100 million into the candidates who were determined to defend the Employee

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