This article covers how lobbyists are providing meals to Maryland legislators and the applicable ethics laws. Under a nearly decade-old law, lobbyists cannot buy meals for individual lawmakers. Yet they are allowed to entertain them in large groups such as committees or county delegations, and often do so at considerable expense to those they represent.
Month: May 2008
Paul Family on Campaign Staff
The Post reports that a number of Ron Paul’s family members are being paid for services rendered to the campaign.
FEC’s Reporting Capacity
The FEC’s reporting capacity is referred to in this Politico article. The campaign finance reports filed by Obama and Clinton have grown so massive that they’ve strained the capacity of the Federal Election Commission, good government groups, the media and even software applications to process and make sense of the data.