One Wisconsin Now alleges that a business group failed to comply with lobbyist disclosure. The watchdog group One Wisconsin Now filed a complaint Tuesday with the Government Accountability Board claiming Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce failed to report lobbying activity involving the University of Wisconsin budget. WMC, a pro-business interest group, commented on its lobbying activities […]
Month: October 2008
Freddie Lobbyists Scattered to the Wind
The recent financial crises has broken up the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae lobbying shops, according to this report. Before they were taken over by the government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent millions of dollars a year on internal and outside lobbyists to keep politicians at bay, countering legislative efforts to regulate them more […]
CA: Public Financing
Public financing will be on 2010 the ballot in California. AB 583 would establish a pilot project for voluntary full public financing system for Secretary of State candidates in 2014 and 2018 if it is passed by a vote of the people on the June 2010 ballot. It is modeled after systems that have been […]