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7 minute Video and footnotes at link. Last night, NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm appeared on Fox Business Network to describe political favoritism by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) that benefited Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund headed by billionaire Phil Falcone. NLPC first accused the FCC of favoritism in a February 2 request for an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). We pointed to large donations to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, made the day after Falcone visited the White House, that appeared to be related to the FCC's fast track approval...

The DSCC has made significant TV ad reservations in Nevada to bolster Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D) campaign against Republican Sharron Angle (R). The reservations are the DSCC's first in Nevada this cycle. According to multiple Republican sources who monitor ad reservations, the DSCC has reserved time starting next Tuesday, Oct. 19, through Election Day. The exact amount of money the DSCC has reserved is hard to pin down because the ad buys are fluid and are likely still being made. But Republican sources told Hotline On Call that the DSCC is planning to spend more than $1M each...

BREAKING: Larry Kane, the host of Voice of Reason on the Comcast Network in Philadelphia, just sat down for an exclusive interview with Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.). Kane tells National Review Online that Sestak said “many people called him to dissuade him from running, just not with job offers.” Sestak also told Kane that he thinks the White House should back off from meddling in primaries and let the voters decide. On the oil spill, Sestak says the Obama administration has not shown an adequate sense of urgency. The interview will air on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. eastern and...

...Sign our petition. Stand with President Obama to hold BP accountable for this disastrous spill. Rush Limbaugh is entirely wrong: This oil will not clean itself up. Corporations must be held accountable for their actions, and the right wing must stop making excuses for environmental bad actors....

The shady Iranian fundraiser who for years donated lucrative sums to top Democrats—including the president, vice president and secretary of state—has pleaded guilty to a major bank-fraud scheme that could land him in jail for nearly two decades.Disgraced Democratic money man Hassan Nemazee admitted this week that he defrauded three financial institutions out of nearly $300 million in loan proceeds by falsifying documents and signatures to show he had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateral. The Ivy League-educated crook then used the proceeds to donate big bucks to the campaigns of federal, state and local candidates. Among them...

Amy Goodman of the Marxist Democracy Now! network reported yesterday on the arrest of a “leading Democratic donor” named Hassan Nemazee. Here is the story, in its entirety: Back in the United States, a leading Democratic donor has been arrested and charged with seeking to defraud the financial giant Citibank. Hassan Nemazee is accused of submitting forged documents to secure a $74 million loan. Nemazee has given at least $150,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee since 2006 and supported several other leading Democratic politicians. Not much to sink your teeth into there. Could it be that Goodman is downplaying...

-excerpt- (Hassan) Nemazee, a New York businessman and one-time prominent Democratic fundraiser admitted Thursday that he bilked three banks out of $ 292 million in loans. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and three counts of bank fraud at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan. Click here for Chad Bray’s story on Dow Jones Newswires; here for the NYT story; here, here and here for previous LB posts on Nemazee. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan had alleged that Nemazee obtained hundreds of millions of loans from Bank of America, Citigroup and HSBC Holdings...

Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina’s statement that she shares Sarah Palin’s values is one reason the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) says his party will keep control of the US Senate in the 2010 elections. When DSCC Chair Robert Menendez was asked at a Monitor breakfast what he thought the chances were that his party would lose its senate majority, he called the idea “wishful thinking on behalf of Republicans.” The New Jersey senator went on to list events that would need to occur for the Democrats to lose their senate majority, which now stands at 57...

Faced with strong headwinds, Democrats say no more Senate retirements and are moving to push Republicans to the right. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) previewed the 2010 strategy with reporters Wednesday during a Christian Science Monitor breakfast. Faced with an increasingly tough political environment and a public that Menendez said was anxious about the economy, the Democrats’ campaign guru emphasized that Republicans face contested primaries in the majority of the seats they are targeting. The Democrats’ goal, he said, is to use those primaries to push the candidates to the right and make sure the Republican...

A well-known Washington insider has been telling Arkies this weekend that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is trying to talk Sen. Blanche Lincoln out of running for re-election. That would open the door for a Wes Clark candidacy. And U.S. Rep. Mike Ross would be in the race in a heartbeat

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was passing out a memo Tuesday advising Democratic campaign managers to define their opponents early and to highlight the differences between moderate voters and tea party-style conservatives.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is telling Democratic campaign managers to drive a wedge between moderate voters and tea-party-style conservatives to take advantage of tensions within the Republican party, a report in Politico said. Menendez is distributing a memo to managers to take control of their Republican opponents' image early, and to make apparent the pressure Republican candidates feel from what he calls the "extreme right," according to the report. The memo from the DSCC said campaigns should ask upfront questions on issues the so-called tea party movement has taken, such...

Democrats are looking for someone to blame for their electoral woes — and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez is working hard to make sure it’s not him. Showing that they’ve learned the lesson of Massachusetts, Menendez and his staff will distribute a memo Tuesday advising Democratic campaign managers to frame their opponents early — and to drive a wedge between moderate voters and tea-party-style conservatives. “Given the pressure Republican candidates feel from the extreme right in their party, there is a critical — yet time-sensitive — opportunity for Democratic candidates,” the DSCC writes. “We have a finite window...

Just how big are the stakes in the Massachusetts Senate race? Independent and party groups were set to spend nearly $5 million on television ads in the final weeks leading up to Tuesday's special election between state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) and state Sen. Scott Brown (R). According to ad-buy information provided to the Fix, there are 13 -- yes, 13 -- groups paying for ads in the race's final days, with Democratic groups outspending Republican-aligned by more than $1 million. Coakley's ad advantage comes from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is set to spend $1.4 million on...

SEIU, DSCC Playing Hardball in Mass. Election World/National News-January 16, 2010 Written by Nathan Barker ...AG Coakley seemed a shoe-in at the beginning of the race but multiple allegations of misuse of power, politicial corruption, failure to investigate Democratic politicians, ties to pay-for-play scandals, and public reaction to the Washington power-play politics on the health-care bill have soured many voters. If Brown is elected, it could spell the end for the Health-Care reform bill. Without the needed 60 votes in the Senate, the Democrats will be unable to force the legislation. To combat this possibility, the SEIU and the DSCC...

A new ad from the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) uses the World Trade Center to tie Scott Brown (R-MA) to greed. The DSCC has since pulled the original ad and is now airing it with a different image.

A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee usesan unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center. The image in the attack on Scott Brown for his alleged closeness to Wall Street pictures the Trade Center and the destroyed Marriott Hotel on its western side. A National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman, Brian Walsh, attacked its use.

Coakley's bodyguard is connected all the way to the top of the Democratic party.Update: 3:10 P.M.: An aide to a Republican senator on the Foreign Relations Committee, which handles nominations to the BBG, says the shoving incident “will certainly be an issue if the White House continues to back his nomination.”“The BBG works to promote freedom and stop abuse of the press overseas. What kind of message does that send dictators in Iran and Venezuela if the U.S. promotes someone caught on tape assaulting reporters?”Update: 2:57 P.M.: The Boston Globe is reporting that Meehan  “said in an e-mail he would...

Michael not only works for Marth Coakley!!! Michael Meehan, Weekly Standard Assailant, Works For PHRMA as Lobbyist for PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. PhRMA represents America’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. PhRMA member companies spent $44.5 billon in 2007 to discover and develop new medications. And apparently a bit of money for democrate Martha Coakley.

Video "which shows a Weekly Standard reporter getting pushed around by a DSCC consultant, Michael Meehan, as a "dirty trick" by "Washington Republicans."