On December 4, 2008, the Federal Election Commission failed to find Sen. Mike Gravel ineligible to receive public matching funds and announced that an advisory opinion from Sen. Kit Bond and his leadership PAC will be discussed on December 18, 2008. The meeting agenda is here.
Recent lobbying controversies in Massachusetts are the topic of this report from The Boston Herald. “The laws we have now are ineffective because I have almost no enforcement authority,” says Secretary of State William F. Galvin, whose office oversees the state’s lobbying statutes.
A New Jersey court upheld an opinion that Rep. Wayne Bryant cannot use campaign funds to pay for his legal expenses, according to this report. Former State Sen. Wayne Bryant of Camden County cannot use his remaining campaign money to pay legal bills from his corruption trial, an appellate court ruled yesterday. The decision upholds […]