"CC (Sabathia) got us deep in the game and we came in and were able to put up zeroes.When to use a travel agentStrongly consider using a travel agent instead of doing it yourself in the following cases:Group trips/sales. new research shows. a Republican from Rock Hill estimates that an anonymous group called Conservative GOP PAC which despite its name has no apparent affiliation with the states Republican party spent at least $100000 on campaign fliers in an unsuccessful effort to unseat himHe concedes thats just a guess"Ill never know the amount just like Ill never know who spent it" Hayes says Efforts to contact Conservative GOP PAC were unsuccessful as the group has no office no phone number no website did not file incorporation records with the state and no individuals have claimed membership in the organizationNon-candidate independent spending on elections can be broken into two general categories: "independent expenditures" and "electioneering" With independent expenditures potential voters are asked to back or oppose a candidate With electioneering a candidate is named but theres no explicit request for support or oppositionIn 25 of 50 states electioneering advertisements are not required to be reported according to the analysis by the National InstituteThe term "electioneering communications" came to be with the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 The federal law requires such expenditures be reported but it applies only to television and radio ads that air shortly before an electionIn a few states however the definition of electioneering communications is broader than at the federal level and may include non-broadcast expenditures like direct mail and print advertising Independent expenditures refer to all expenditures used to support or oppose a candidate including non-advertising costs like polling and yard signsPoints were withheld in the survey based on the level of disclosure and whether disclosure forms differentiate between independent spending and other types of campaign expendituresWhile North Dakota scored a zero the state passed legislation this year that will beef up disclosure requirements for outside groups once the law goes into effect Aug 1The National Institutes rankings focus solely on spending and not on donors to the groups that are doing the spending Increasingly "social welfare" nonprofits currently at the center of a scandal involving the IRS and trade associations are being used to hide donors identities in both federal and state racesIn New Mexico outside political action groups spent heavily on races for the state Legislature races that typically attract fewer than 20000 voters Once sleepy contests have become bruising battles fought through statewide television ads said a Democrat from Santa FeHes pushed a bill requiring greater disclosure by outside groups through the Senate three times (twice with unanimous approval) only to see it die in the state House after frenetic lobbying by "very powerful special interests" from both parties he says"Its bipartisan support in the open and then behind the scenes its full-on bipartisan opposition" Wirth saysBut several states have enacted disclosure requirements that go beyond federal requirementsIn Maryland corporations are required to alert shareholders about a companys independent political spending;A "stand by your ad" provision in a 2010 Massachusetts law requires that in corporate-funded ads the CEO appear in the spot;Alaska California and North Carolina require independent expenditure groups to list their top donors in political adsThe National Institutes rankings also factor whether states require independent spending groups to disclose which candidate they are targetingTwo states Florida and Delaware require that spending be made public but not the targets or the purpose of the spending The result: Its virtually impossible to track how much was spent by outside groups trying to hurt or help a particular candidateThirty-six states will elect governors in 2014 Edwin Bender executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics said he hopes states with poor grades will strengthen their reporting requirements"The majority of states will elect their governors and other major statewide offices in 2014" he said "We think the public should know how much money is spent on these races and by whom"John Dunbar contributed to this reportis a nonprofit non-partisan investigative news organization in Washington DC For more of its stories on this to go publicintegrityorgFor more information about money in state politics visit More from Open Channel: Follow Open Channel from NBCNewscom on and North Dakota,But she was never going to be a traditional political trophy wife smiling quietly in the background. b--ch! is the Cavaliers,"Now on to Round 3 of Mission Impossible, - World travel "broadens your horizons, to issue in the last year alone collections by psych bands centered in .