As part of our ongoing Urban Go-team: Inside Politics program, we are helping students find news related to political races and issues that are of interest to them. Each week we will be posting a number of news articles, videos, and graphics that help explain what’s going in Campaign 2016. Some of them will be local to St. Louis, some of them will be focused nationally.
This week, Bobbi Clemons is helping scour the internet for interesting things to read. (In future weeks we hope to have Go-Team members contribute! If you are interested in contributing links, please email [email protected])
Thursday:
- This is like something out of House of Cards: Political ‘Mad Men’: Trump paid mysterious company tied to Missouri’s heated governor’s race (STL Post Dispatch)
- Our friends at OpenSecrets.org helped break this story: Sorry, Trump Is Probably Not Paying Himself a Salary Out of Campaign Funds (Slate)
- Ads are dropping for races most Missourians don’t pay attention to: Randles, Parson launch TV spots in lieutenant governor’s race (The Missouri Times)
- If we didn’t have a VP, who else would attend all the fancy luncheons?: Do vice presidents matter? Far more than they used to, says SLU law professor Joel Goldstein (STL Public Radio)
- Special student piece on corruption in Brazil: Brazil: Are liberal economics and liberal democracy at odds? (Chris Harden, Civitas)
Tuesday:
- 2016 is still an unpredictable election year: The Missouri Experiment: How Berniecrats just seized control of the Missouri Democratic Party at the state convention. (Buzzfeed)
- Positive news out of Maine about Campaign Financing: Clean Elections was a big winner in Maine’s primaries (Bangor Daily news)
- Hilarious look at how campaigns get around current campaign finance laws: Leaked Guide Shows Clinton Staffers How to Solicit for Super PAC Without Breaking Pesky Rules (The Intercept)
- There is a lot of money floating around in the presidential race right now: Clinton outspending Trump by $116 million on ads (CNN)
- Last but not least, a thoughtful student contribution to the Urban-Go-Team blog: Ideology Will Not Solve Inequality (Chris Harden, Civitas site)
Monday:
- Money in politics Missouri style: Where’s the money coming from? Kander’s from lawyers, Blunt’s from financial world (STL Post Dispatch)
- Senator Roy Blunt is getting some help with his fundraising: George W. Bush to raise money for Roy Blunt (STL Post Dispatch)
- Interesting look at how Gerrymandering has shaped elections: Drawing the Line:How redistricting turned America from blue to red. (New Yorker)
- Trump’s mega-donors are confused about who to donate to: Donald Trump Has a Super-PAC Problem, but it’s not a lack of them (Mother Jones)
- Clinton’s mega-donors are also having problems: Wall Street donors seek to block Warren VP pick (Politico)
