Washington — Two new companies have moved to adopt disclosure and oversight of their political spending with corporate dollars. Their action brings to 50, or half, the number of public companies in the trend-setting S&P 100 that have embraced the corporate governance…
Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 2010 — The Center for Political Accountability and the council of Institutional Investors, joined by nearly 50 institutional investors and shareholder advocate groups, today launched a letter campaign to persuade companies in the Standard &…
Washington, DC – The Center for Political Accountabilityand the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at theUniversity of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School warned thatlifting long-standing limits on corporate political activity andmore recent requirements for…
Washington, D.C. — An article in today’s Politico exposed aneffort by the American Conservative Union, a leading501(c)(4) organization, to raise $2 million from private mailcarrier FedEx. The group said it would support the companyon a controversial piece of…
Washington, DC – The Center for Political Accountability warned today that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 29, 2009 ordering a new hearing of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission threatened a tidal wave of undisclosed, unaccounted for money in federal and…
Washington DC – As the 2009 proxy season formally opens, the pace of political disclosure is accelerating as seven new companies from a cross-section of American business have agreed to adopt or expand their disclosure of political spending with corporate funds. This brings to 60 the number of companies embracing what is becoming a corporate…