This news from Honolulu involves using federal campaign funds for a state run for office. U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, who is thinking about running for governor in 2010, has a potential $1.2 million challenge.
Month: November 2008
Transition Rules Trip Anti-Tobacco Lobbyist?
President-elect Obama’s rules for lobbyist participation in the transition may or may not have been tripped, according to Politico. One of the leading members of President-elect Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services transition team was an anti-tobacco lobbyist as recently as September, a position that would appear to break a transition team rule that prevents […]
Complaint Against Church
A group has allegedly filed a complaint against the Church of Latter Day Saints regarding Proposition 8. A California gay rights activist filed a complaint Thursday accusing the Mormon church of failing to report the value of the work it did to support the state’s new same-sex marriage ban. Fred Karger, the founder of Californians […]