TORTILLA COAST PROFIT.  Roll Call.  “In each of the last three election cycles, House and national party campaign committees have paid bills totaling more than $200,000 at the restaurant.”

UBER LOBBYING.  Here.  “Car-for-hire service Uber has hired its first Washington lobbying firm, according to public disclosure forms.”

BACHMANN REFUNDS.  Here.  “GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann has turned about $14,000 in past campaign contributions over to a bankruptcy trustee for a Florida businessman who was linked to a big federal fraud case in Minnesota.”

PONZI CASH.  HuffPo.  “President Barack Obama received $4,600 in campaign contributions from R. Allen Stanford less than a year before the Texan was arrested in 2009 for running one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.”

NY:  SUPER PAC REQUEST.  Story here.  “Today, America Rising, a Republican super PAC, will file a Freedom of Information Law request for records related to the Cuomo administration’s role in the commission’s subpoena process.”

VA: EMAIL FIGHT. The Post. “A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a request by attorneys for Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) to shield two e-mails written by a senior policy adviser to the governor from a grand jury subpoena in a criminal investigation.”

WA: GROCERY GROUP SUED. Story here. “Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit today against the Grocery Manufacturers Association, alleging the group illegally collected and spent more than $7 million to oppose Initiative 522, the measure requiring labeling of genetically modified foods.”

WI:  EMBOLDENED BY MCCUTCHEON.  Here.  “If McCutcheon wins, a Wisconsin case is waiting in federal court that could end Wisconsin’s aggregate limits.”

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