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“Who Is Next?” Payday Lending Accountability Ad Runs on Inside Cover of Politico Print Edition
Payday lending accountability campaign targeting those who continue to undermine Obama on payday lending reform hits the pages of Politico.
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Sunlight Foundation: Dark Money Group Spends $58,000 Attacking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Another campaign has popped up in response to Protect America’s Consumers: Protect Consumers From Protect America’s Consumers. A joint project of Allied Progress and American Family Voices, the website criticizes Protect America’s Consumers as “a shady front group,” calling it an “astroturf” campaign against the CFPB.
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FloridaPolitics.com: Advocacy Group Asks Public What Florida Lawmaker They Should Target Next Over Payday Loans
After nearly two months of hammering Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz for “sabotaging” President Barack Obama’s efforts to hold payday lenders accountable, Allied Progress now says they’re moving on to target another Florida lawmaker for the same offense.
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Who Will Allied Progress Expose Next in Payday Reform Fight?
Group behind “Debt Trap Debbie” ads, billboards seeks input from public on which congressional payday pal to expose next.
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Nashville’s News Channel 5: Lawmaker Wants Stiffer Rules For Payday Loan Companies
As first reported by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, in the months before and after that law passed, more than $400,000 in contributions to Tennessee Lawmakers was doled out by 5 pay day loan political action committees. Karl Frisch is the Executive Director of Allied Progress, a Washington DC based non-profit that has tracked the political spending of pay day loan companies across the country.
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Kansas City Star Editorial: Kris Kobach Embarrasses Kansans… Again and Again and Again
Allied Progress, a nonprofit public advocacy group, says it wants a full investigation of communication between Kobach and Brian Newby, the new executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and a former leader of the Johnson County Election Office. This is a probe worth doing.
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Who What Why: Fighting “Fraud” or Undermining Voting Rights?
A top federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) official is under fire for secretly communicating with a proponent of more restrictive voting laws. In light of the revelation, the progressive advocacy group Allied Progress has asked for an investigation.
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KCUR: Group Calls For Investigation Into Election Official’s Ties With Kobach
In a letter addressed to the EAC’s Inspector General sent Thursday, Allied Progress says emails between Newby and Kobach published earlier this month by the Associated Press show Newby violated the EAC’s rules for communicating with state election officials.
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New Website Exposes “Protect America’s Consumers” – The Shady Interest Group Behind the CFPB Smear Campaign
Allied Progress and American Family Voices launch website highlighting the true motivations behind the shady front group called “Protect America’s Consumers.”
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Inspector General Investigation Requested into U.S. Election Assistance Commission Leader
Inspector General of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission asked to investigate conduct executive director Brian Newby.