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.
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 […]
I wonder if the “Election Day Voter Protection Initiative” templates will include election day A.P.B.‘s for these Kerry-Edwards staffers. All five defendants had been charged with damaging 40 tires on 25 rented vans parked outside Republican Party offices on W. Capitol Drive, hours before they were to be deployed for electioneering.