| HUFFPOLLSTER: Top Pollsters Ranked On 2014 Campaign Spending Posted: 12 Feb 2015 05:52 AM PST  HUFFPOLLSTER Top Pollsters Ranked On 2014 Campaign Spending  Jeffrey Coolidge via Getty Images By Mark Blumenthal, Ariel Edwards-Levy & Janie Velencia
Open Secrets releases a new tool that tracks spending on polls and other campaign expenses. Americans see growth in economy but little personal change. And immigration reform gets strong support. This is HuffPollster for Thursday, February 12, 2015.
During the 2014 campaign cycle, the top polling firms took in over $60 million in campaign disbursements, according to the latest financial disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission.
That's just one statistic culled from a handy new search tool launched on Wednesday by the Open Secrets web site of the Center for Responsive Politics that breaks down disbursements by campaigns for president and U.S. Congress by campaign committee and vendor.
Until now, if you wanted to find out which campaign consultants did the most business in the last election cycle, or what candidates they polled for, you had to sift through thousands of pages of financial disclosure forms by hand. Now, thanks to improved electronic disclosure requirements by the Federal Election Commission and CRP's new search tool, answers to those questions are easy to find.
Of greatest interest to those who follow pre-election polls, the section includes an interactive listing of the top 50 "Polling Vendors". Each firm has a link that when clicked also reveals total receipts from each of their clients.
In the 2014 cycle, for example, the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies ranked number one, taking in $5.9 million in federal campaign polling expenditures. Another click shows total payments to POS from 99 separate campaigns and campaign committees, with just over $1 million in receipts from American Crossroads, the Super PAC led by former Bush White House advisor Karl Rove.
The top 10 listing also reveals a longstanding contrast in the way Republicans and Democrats handle campaign polling. Two large firms, POS and The Tarrance Group, dominate on the Republican side, ranking 1st and 3rd overall. Among Democrats, top campaign clients distribute their polling dollars more evenly, with seven firms among the top 10.
The listing also demonstrates the influence of the Obama administration among the Democrats, with three firms with longstanding ties to the Obama campaigns -- Benenson Strategy Group, Anzalone Liszt Grove Research and David Binder Research -- ranking 2nd, 4th and 7th respectively. These three firms took in a combined $11.3 million dollars in federal campaign funds during the 2014 campaign cycle, just over half of which ($5.3 million) came from the Democratic National Committee.
These totals come with some important caveats. First, since CRP's compilation is limited to federal campaigns, numbers do not yet include expenditures by candidates for governor or any other non-federal campaigns at the state or local level. Second, the database does not include spending by "out of cycle" senators (those who were not up for re-election in 2014) or spending by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee or the National Republican Senatorial Committee. As CRP's Andrew Mayersohn explains, the Senate committees "still file paper reports, often thousands of pages long, and the FEC only recently started to make their expenditures data available in an accessible format." CRP is working to include the Senate committee expenditures "very shortly."
Finally, CRP's polling totals rely on the "purpose of disbursement" reported by campaigns for each expense. As explained to HuffPollster, payment to polling venders were those listed for "polls" or "polling," plus those for more ambiguous labels such as "research" where CRP determined that the vendor is primarily a pollster. Payments were not considered part of the polling total, however, when they were categorized with vague labels such as "consulting" and the CRP's check found the company offers a wide variety of services other than polling.
Michael Bloomberg is a pollster? - One odd anomaly is the name Michael Bloomberg as number 8 on the list of top pollsters, with his pro-gun law Super Pac, Independence USA, listed for 15 payments of over $2.2 million dollars.
No, Bloomberg is not a pollster. And, according to Independence USA spokesman Stu Lesser, "IUSA PAC made no disbursements to Mike Bloomberg."
The payments were disclosures of "in kind" expenditures by Bloomberg for polling. Lesser explains: "The former Mayor paid directly for polling that he gave to the IUSA PAC as an in-kind contribution. The FEC's software reports a corresponding disbursement back to Mr. Bloomberg to prevent the in-kind contribution from affecting the report’s closing cash-on-hand figure."
Which actual pollsters billed Bloomberg for that $2.2 million dollars? Lesser declined to comment. Separately, CRP's reports show that Independence USA disclosed additional direct payments to pollsters Douglas Schoen ($635,250) and Global Strategy Group ($105,500).
Is Bloomberg's "in kind" reporting legal? Yes, says Lesser. "I obviously don't speak for the FEC, but they prescribe this manner of reporting to count the value of in-kind contributions but not misstate the amount of money the committee has left to spend."
Paul S. Ryan, senior counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, agrees that Bloomberg's filing meets legal requirements, but considers the FEC rules "deficient," since "the public is unable to determine who is providing services to the committee in the event of an in-kind contribution." Similarly, as Ryan points out via email, "political committees are also permitted to pay political consultants who, in turn, pay a bunch of specific types of vendors to render services to the committee, but only the disbursement to the consultant is required to be disclosed. At the end of the day, voters don’t have as much information about money in politics as they should."
AMERICANS BULLISH ABOUT ECONOMY, BUT SEE LESS PERSONAL CHANGE - Dana Blanton: "Sure, things are much better. Just not for me. That’s how many American voters view the economy, according to the latest Fox News poll. The number saying the country is still in a recession is down more than 20 percentage points since 2010. Yet the number saying their family is 'falling behind' financially is the same. And while more people are getting ahead -- the largest portion is still just getting by. In 2010, an overwhelming 88 percent felt the country was in a recession. That’s down to 65 percent in the new poll, released Wednesday….When asked about their family’s finances, 31 percent say they are getting ahead. While still a minority, that’s up from 24 percent in 2013 and 27 percent in September 2009 (in the first year of President Obama’s first term)." [Fox]
AMERICANS WANT CONGRESS TO ACT ON IMMIGRATION REFORM
A new Public Religion Research Institute poll finds 73 percent of Americans want Congress to prioritize passing legislation on comprehensive immigration reform. The consensus transcends party lines with 85 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Republicans agreeing that Congress should prioritize and pass legislation on immigration reform. A slim minority, 17 percent, believe that Congress should focus on overturning Obama's immigration policy instead. A majority, 59 percent, support a path to citizenship for people currently living illegally in the U.S., "provided they meet certain requirements." When asked if they support the parameters for granting legal status as established by Obama, a majority are in favor. However, there is a divide over Obama choosing to act on immigration through executive action. Fifty-two percent say Obama was right to take executive action, while 42 percent say he was wrong. A closer look reveals there are clear political and racial divides on whether Obama should have used executive action. While nearly three in four Republicans oppose his use of executive action, an equal number of Democrats are in favor. In a racial breakdown, 53 percent of white Americans do not approve of the president exercising executive action. In contrast, 80 percent of Hispanic Americans and 80 percent of black Americans support the president's use of executive action. Fifty-eight percent believe that immigrants strengthen the country, while 31 percent see immigrants as a burden. [PRRI]
OPINIONS ON NETANYAHU'S SPEECH SPLIT ALONG PARTY LINES - HuffPollster: "Americans think that it was a breach of protocol for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress, but they still want members of Congress to attend his speech, a HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. In the survey, Americans say by a 23-point margin that it's inappropriate for a member of Congress to invite a foreign leader to speak in the U.S. without first consulting with the White House, and by a 17-point margin that Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu, specifically, was inappropriate. In both cases, about a quarter of Americans said they weren't sure. Despite disagreeing with the handling of the invitation, though, Americans were also more likely than not to say U.S. politicians should still meet with Netanyahu during his trip. The public's opinions on the whole debate were also partisan, with Democrats far more likely than Republicans to find the invitation inappropriate. While Democrats are 9 points more likely than not to say their representative should avoid the Netanyahu speech, Republicans say by a 59-point margin that their representative should attend." [HuffPost]
THURSDAY'S 'OUTLIERS' - Links to the best of news at the intersection of polling, politics and political data:
-Twenty-two percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the influence of religion and want less of it. [Gallup]
-Across the 50 states, gay marriage is favored most in New Hampshire and least in Alabama.. [PRRI]
-A poll of Iowa and New Hampshire Democratic primary voters sponosored by MoveOn.org reads 10 positive statements about Elizabeth Warren and then finds her polling at an unusually high 31 percent. [WashPost]
-Forty-six percent of illegal immigrants live in the 26 states suing Obama over his executive action on immigration. [Pew]
-CrowdPAC ideological scores show Scott Walker tapping conservative donors nationwide. [NYT]
-Oliver Roeder tracks the growth of incarceration in America. [538]
-John Sides revisits whether the Bain Capital ads really mattered in 2012. [WashPost]
-Jenny Marder profiles a professional survey-taker. [PBS]
-Fact Tank compiles stats on the legacy of the Daily Show. [Pew]
Read the whole story  | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 | | |   | HUFFPOST HILL - ;) ;) Andy Harris ;) ;) Posted: 11 Feb 2015 02:32 PM PST  If "House of Cards'" producers wanted to gain street cred by fake-leaking the show’s third season, they should have done so on Medium. Scott Walker dodged questions while in London today, but his use of American sports metaphors while doing so probably suggests something about his foreign policy. And if we looked at our mothers the way Andy Harris looked at his, they’d probably assume we were high. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Wednesday, February 11th, 2015: HOUSE PASSES KEYSTONE BILL - AP: "The Republican-controlled Congress has cleared a bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. That sets up a confrontation with President Barack Obama, who has threatened to veto the measure. The House voted 270-152 on Wednesday to send the bill to the president. Neither chamber has enough votes to overcome a veto. The vote caps weeks of debate on a top priority for Congress after the GOP took control last month. Supporters are already planning on using other means to secure the pipeline's approval." [ AP] DHS? MORE LIKE DOA, AMIRITE? - [Holds hand up for high five... waits… waits some more… lowers hand… lowers head…] Elise Foley: "House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) showed no signs Wednesday of wavering on immigration measures in the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, even after GOP leaders in the Senate conceded they couldn't get the House-passed legislation through the upper chamber. 'The House has done its job,' Boehner said at a press conference after he met with House Republican members. 'Why don't you go ask the Senate Democrats when they're going to get off their ass and do something other than to vote no?' DHS funding is set to run out Feb. 27, but the two parties appear no closer to a deal to prevent a shutdown." [ HuffPost] The Washington Post plotted Boehner's cuss words on a helpful chart. AUMF! - It's not just a word that pops up in big cartoon letters when Batman punches the Penguin in the gut. Jen Bendery: "President Barack Obama said the war authorization proposal he unveiled Wednesday strikes the 'necessary balance,' giving him the flexibility to fight Islamic State militants without setting the nation up for another open-ended war in the Middle East. Obama sent a draft Authorization for the Use of Military Force to Congress earlier in the day, outlining the limits he wants in the military campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS or ISIL. His proposal would limit military action against the group to three years and allow for limited U.S. ground troops in situations involving rescue operations or intelligence sharing. It wouldn't put any geographic limits on the military campaign; instead, it would limit military action to countering the Islamic State and associated forces. The AUMF itself would sunset in three years as well. ' This resolution strikes the necessary balance giving us the flexibility we need for unforeseen circumstances,' Obama said during brief remarks at the White House. 'If we had actionable intelligence about a gathering of ISIL leaders, and our partners didn't have the capacity to get them, I would be prepared to order our special forces to take action.'" [ HuffPost] The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing to set the stage for the coming disability insurance fight. HuffPost Haircuts: Akbar Ahmed, Sara Bondioli. DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - Just 37 out of more than 16,000 welfare applicants failed drug tests during six months of testing in Tennessee, The Tennessean reported this week. Though Republican lawmakers in nearly every state have proposed drug tests for recipients of government benefits in recent years, Tennessee is one of only 12 states that have followed through with a testing program. Its results are typical: Very fewpoor people seeking benefits actually turned out to have dirty urine. Yet despite the dubious results, an additional dozen states have already started considering similar legislation this year. [ HuffPost] Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? Get your own copy. It's free! Sign up here. Send tips/stories/photos/events/fundraisers/job movement/juicy miscellanea to huffposthill@huffingtonpost.com. Follow us on Twitter - @HuffPostHill OBAMA AND HILLARY'S PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO GET ALONG VERY WELL - Like "The Slap," but for squabbling Clinton yes -men and -women. Times: "All recognize that Mrs. Clinton’s political operation could dominate the Democratic Party for the next decade, controlling the flow of commissions, consulting work and political appointments. But the marriage between the two camps -- based to a large degree on mutual interest, if not love -- now appears more uneasy than at any time since Mr. Obama asked Mrs. Clinton to serve in his administration after the 2008 election...[David Brock's] successful fund-raising has been led by Mary Pat Bonner, whose firm has been paid millions of dollars by Mr. Brock’s groups to court donors -- some of whom have criticized the arrangement as well as Mr. Brock...'He is a cancer,' said [previous Obama bundler John] Morgan, who is close to [Jim] Messina. 'If you care about your party and our country, you just do what you are asked,' said Mr. Morgan, referring to Mr. Brock’s public resignation from Priorities USA, which immediately reignited tales of infighting from Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign. 'If you care about yourself, you take your toys and go home.' Mr. Brock declined to comment." [ NYT] SCOTT WALKER DODGES QUESTION ABOUT EVOLUTION - Remember when Obama used "evolution" to dodge a question? Who wore it best? Ned Simons, our man in London: "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Wednesday dodged a question about whether he believes in evolution. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign policy think tank London, Walker was asked: 'Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution? Do you believe in it?' ' For me, I am going to punt on that one as well,' he said. 'That's a question politicians shouldn't be involved in one way or another. I am going to leave that up to you. I'm here to talk about trade not to pontificate about evolution.'" [ HuffPost] MARK KIRK: WE SUCK - Sahil Kapur: "Republican Sen. Mark Kirk said Wednesday that his party made a mistake by picking a fight over President Barack Obama's immigration actions, and said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should bring up a 'clean' bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security funded. ' I generally agree with the Democratic position here. I think we should have never fought this battle on DHS funding,' the Illinois senator told a few reporters in the Capitol." [ TPM] HANDSOME MAN WITH NICE HAIR RUNNING FOR OFFICE - WaPo: "California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday told supporters that he will run for the state’s highest office in three years as another piece of the Golden State’s complicated political puzzle fell into place. 'I’ve never been a fan of pretense or procrastination,' Newsom says in the e-mail announcing his campaign for governor. 'The reality of running for Governor -- even four years from now -- in America’s largest, most diverse state demands that I start raising resources now if we’re going to lead a conversation worthy of the 38 million people who live, work, attend school and raise families in the Golden State.' Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, was widely expected to run to replace either Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who is term-limited in 2018, or Sen. Barbara Boxer (D), who is retiring after her term expires in 2016. Newsom bowed out of the Senate race just days after Boxer announced she was out, making a bid for governor all but certain." [ HuffPost] NOI MORE NOI? - The New Organizing Institute -- responsible for breeding a generation of irritating people in Warby Parker glasses who spend most of their time appearing on panels where they call one another "rock stars" -- has lost a number of key staffers. We wish them all the best. BuzzFeed: " The New Organizing Institute, a progressive grassroots outfit responsible for training many of the Democratic Party’s digital organizers, has to be rebuilt from the ground up after a mass exodus of senior staff and employees Tuesday. Frustrations over fundraising and the management style of Executive Director Ethan Roeder, the former top data guru for President Obama’s presidential campaigns, led senior staffers to quit and several employees to follow them out the door after the nonprofit’s board of directors refused to fire Roeder at the staff’s request. Staff who left said that layoffs followed the mass resignation, but the board denies that." [ BuzzFeed] NO ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THEIR OWN MOTHER LIKE THIS - National Journal: "In a strange -- or adorable, depending on how you look at it -- C-SPAN clip that surfaced Wednesday, the Republican congressman from Maryland showed just how much he wants to make mom proud. In the two-minute-long video, Harris wordlessly communicated with his mother, who was watching the network. It began when Harris suddenly slid into the bench behind speaker Rep. Buddy Carter, which put him right in front of C-SPAN viewers. Harris then gave a quick glance around to see if anyone was looking, and stole a wink at the camera." [ National Journal]  High on life.MEDIUM KINDA SUCKS - Remember, it's essentially PR Newswire but with more helvetica. National Journal: "Mitt Romney announced he was not running for president in 2016 on Medium. The White House posted the entirety of President Obama's budget on Medium. And now Medium, a website two Twitter co-founders -- Biz Stone and Ev Williams -- started in 2012, is coming for the rest of D.C. What is Medium? The simplest explanation is it's an online publication platform. The backbone of the site, and its main selling point, is its beautiful and simple design. With big, cushy fonts, text fields uncluttered by advertisements, and large-format-photo options, it's a sandbox for anyone (even us) to create Web content that rivals the best designed sites… It's up to the reader to distinguish between what's journalism and what's communications--and all the shades in between. 'We don't make those judgments for the reader,' Lee says. 'The reader is smart and can figure out what they are reading.'" [ National Journal] BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Here's a cat who gives no shits. TENNESSEE LAWMAKER DOES VERY TENNESSEE THING - We can only presume that the current state book is a leather-bound edition of Dolly Parton's memoir, "Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business." Amanda Terkel: " A Tennessee state legislator has introduced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, after two other Southern states considered similar moves in recent months. State Rep. Jerry Sexton (R) put forward his legislation Tuesday. He did not return a request for additional comment. Last month, legislators in Mississippi introduced two bills to designate the Bible as the state book...'The Bible provides a good role model on how to treat people,' said Mississippi state Rep. Tom Miles (D), one of the cosponsors of that state's legislation. 'They could read in there about love and compassion.'" [ HuffPost] COMFORT FOOD - Sports Center already has an ad up starring the Super Bowl sharks. - Steve Buscemi as the protagonist of " Fifty Shades of Grey." - An algorithm helps you find Waldo. - Meet Vladimir Putin's favorite EDM artist. TWITTERAMA@EvanMcSan: With Shame A Distant Memory, Democratic Party Op Hits Send On Jon Stewart “Thank You” List-Builder Petition Email @lehmannchris: I'm not convinced that evolution believes in Scott Walker, either. @anchorlines: 'oh, valentine's day? yeah, i have plans' *sees house of cards was taken down* 'wait nevermind come back' Got something to add? 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 |   | | What Apple Just Did in Solar Posted: 11 Feb 2015 01:42 PM PST | | | | | | | | | |  | Late last year, they persuaded lawmakers to roll back rules for derivatives—and gave fuel to their biggest critics. | | |  | The decline in cable subscribers, combined with a weaker advertising market and rising streaming-only competition, makes this a terrible time for a network to lose its star. | | | |  | Ukraine's space industry was once a relatively bright spot in an otherwise-bleak economy. Then came war with Russia. | | |  | Frustrated developers are purposefully letting golf courses go to seed. | | |  | But it's still delicious. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |   | | Cops, Wife: Muslim Killings in N.C Not Hate Posted: 11 Feb 2015 01:30 PM PST Police, Wife: Muslim Killings Not Hate   | | | Craig Stephen Hicks has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly killed three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday night, the Charlotte Observer reported. Deah Barakat, 23; Barakat's wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21; and Yusor's sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were all shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. A police spokesman said the shooting was over a long-running parking dispute between Hicks, who is an outspoken atheist, and the trio. The U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina said the shootings were not "not part of a targeted campaign against Muslims in North Carolina." Although the father of the two slain girls, Mohammad Abu-Salha, said the killings were "a hate crime" and called the shootings "execution-style," Hicks' ex-wife said he cared about individual rights and that religion played no role in the incident. | | | | | | | | | | | | | President Obama has sent Congress draft legislation for authorizing the use of military force against ISIS. He has asked for it to be limited to three years, but with no geographic restriction on where the threat may be pursued. The legislation mentioned the deaths of James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and Kayla Mueller. In a letter accompanying the draft, Obama wrote, "Local forces, rather than U.S. military forces, should be deployed to conduct such operations." His letter also states, "The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other, more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special-operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership." | | | | | | | | | | | | | During opening statements of the trial for the man accused of killing "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, it was revealed that the victims could tell he was mentally unstable. Eddie Routh's trial began Wednesday with a log of text messages from Kyle to Littlefield, including one saying "This dude is straight up nuts." Littlefield texted back, "He's right behind me, watch my six." That was on Feb. 2, 2013. Both men were killed at a gun range at Rough Creek Lodge within a few hours of those texts. District Attorney Alan Nash stressed to the jurors that Routh's history of being in and out of mental and veterans hospitals for years did not excuse his behavior. "Mental illness does not deprive people from being good citizens," Nash said. However, one of Routh's lawyers took a different approach to his mental illness. "He thought he had to take their lives because, in his psychosis, he thought they were going to take his," said Tim Moore. | | | | | | | | | | | | Apparently being a hard news man was not how Brian Williams saw the rest of his career. The suspended NBC Nightly News anchor reportedly lobbied executives a couple of years ago to take over as host of The Tonight Show once the network decided to move on from Jay Leno. 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Now, Heinz, Frito-Lay, and Subway are just using "Sriracha" as a descriptor without using Tran's sauce. Tran doesn't have any problem with it and he has no desire to trademark Sriracha. "Everyone wants to jump in now," he said. "We have lawyers come and say 'I can represent you and sue' and I say 'No. Let them do it.'" That may be because sales of his original Sriracha bottles have grown by as much as $80 million a year in just the last two years. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian passed away at the age of 84 on Wednesday. Tarkanian led the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to four Final Fours and a national championship in 1990, building a basketball dynasty for the school. Known as Tark the Shark, he had a controversial career and was known for recruiting players from junior colleges and not doing background checks. He often went head-to-head with the NCAA, successfully suing the organization for $2.5 million for trying to run him out of college athletics. | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the second day of his trial in France, more details of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lurid sex life were revealed. Apparently, in addition to sex parties, Strauss-Kahn allegedly brought a prostitute with him to IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C. Strauss-Kahn has denied that he knew the women were prostitutes. He claims that paying for sex would be too risky for the head of the IMF, which was busy "saving the world from an unprecedented" financial crisis. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Over a period of 36 hours in October 2014, at least 221 women and girls were raped in the town of Tabit near Darfur by Sudanese armed forces, according to a Human Rights Watch report. Sudan has denied the report and had refused access to peacekeepers. When it relented and gave them access briefly on Nov. 9, they prevented investigators from carrying out their mission. Victims say they were threatened by government officials with prison or death if they spoke of what happened. The attack could be considered a crime against humanity. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Jackie Robinson West of Chicago team has been stripped of its 2014 U.S. Little League championship, which has instead been awarded to a squad from Las Vegas. "After an extensive review of the operations of Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4, the Little League International Charter/Tournament Committee has determined that the Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4 Administrator knowingly violated Little League International Rules and Regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team's boundaries," a Little League news release says. 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