Day: January 17, 2009

WY: Changed Limits

Wyoming is considering an increase in contribution limits, according to this report. Dan Neal, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center, a Laramie-based policy watchdog group, said in an interview after the hearing that the $2,300 cap is too high. He said campaign costs have not risen sufficiently in Wyoming in recent years to […]

“The Triumph of Lobbying”

Robert Kaiser’s new book, The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrision of American Government is reviewed in the SF Chronicle here. Kaiser does a great job of laying out the current situation and how we got here, but thankfully does not waste too much time on solutions. There’s already a library’s worth of material put […]