This Fox Business report details the status of the controversy surrounding “VIP loans” allegedly provided to Members of Congress. After being stonewalled for nearly a month, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) have sent an official request for an Ethics Committee investigation into “disturbing allegations,” first reported in Conde Nast Portfolio, that […]
Day: August 15, 2008
Mmmmmm… Beef…
Beef and campaign money mix in this story from Mississippi. The latest guilty plea in the ongoing Mississippi Beef Processors scandal lays bare a fundamental weakness in Mississippi campaign finance law – a weakness that creates a tenuous line of demarcation between a legal campaign donation and a bribe.
Nader News from the North
Canada’s National Post has this interesting story on a Nader visit to Canada. A young woman with a fistful of cash stood at the back of Ralph Nader’s speech in Toronto on Monday, handing bills to people as they left. The money had been donated to Mr. Nader’s presidential bid by well-meaning Canadians, but only […]