Day: March 29, 2009

HLOGA Deadline

Sunday night… Time for “60 Minutes” and getting ready for the week ahead.  And did I mention it’s the first HLOGA deadline for lobbyist/registrant PACs to file an amended Form 1 to indicate their status?  Here’s my previous post.

Blagojevich’s Targets

The Chicago-Sun Times reports that some who may have been in contention for President Obama’s former Senate seat were on a fundraising list for ex-Gov. Blagojevich’s campaign. The four were among about 150 people targeted for contributions by the Friends of Blagojevich campaign organization by the end of 2008, when a new Illinois law took […]

The State of Public Financing

The Washington Times reports that in an interview Sen. John McCain said that the presidential public financing system for elections is “dead.” Sen. John McCain, an architect of sweeping campaign-finance reform who got walloped by a presidential candidate armed with more than $750 million, predicts that no one will ever again accept federal matching funds […]