lobbying
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Jun02
Clips Round-up for 6/2/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Conflict of interest: Contractors and their political spending
Marketplace talks to Robert Reich about government contractor transparency.
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May25
Clips Round-up for 5/25/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
John Edwards May Face Criminal Charges
Uh Oh. “Multiple reports say former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards will soon be indicted by the Justice Department on criminal charges for allegedly violating campaign finance laws in an effort to cover up his extramarital affair.”
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May12
Clips Round-up for 5/12/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Bills would weaken--or eliminate--Maine's Clean Elections Act
Gov. LePage may have dropped his plans to defund Clean Elections in the budget, but that doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet.
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May05
Clips Round-up for 5/5/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Recuse me
Linda Greenhouse writes this column about calls for judicial recusal--focusing mostly on Prop 8 but also mentioning Common Cause's efforts with Scalia and Thomas, and Sierra Club with Scalia.
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Apr27
Norm Coleman has some questions to answer
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has signed on as a lobbyist with the Washington, D.C. firm Hogan Lovells, according to a report from Minnesota Public Radio.
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Apr22
Wall Street Lobbies Big In 1st Quarter
The Wall Street Journal reports today (via our friends at ThinkProgress), that “Wall Street and the financial industry spent more to lobby Washington in the first quarter of this year than a year ago when Congress was writing sweeping financial-overhaul legislation.”
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Apr20
Clips round up for April 20, 2011
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections
Obama administration drafts executive order on contractor donation transparency
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Apr19
Clips Round-up for 4/19/11
Well folks, the Arizona legislature was able to push through its legislation to put a repeal of Clean Elections on the 2012 ballot: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMRcWfGorFp705PT3P30iogEMDbA?docId=00ebb6b5243d4739aa0fbb9de154fa01, though as the poll we released yesterday shows, oppon
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Apr14
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Apr13
The Artful Dodgers
Today Public Campaign released a report detailing the actions of twelve top U.S. corporations, known as corporate tax dodgers, that spent over $1 billion in political money over the past decade to help maintain their tax breaks and corporate loopholes.