Month: January 2009

IL: Pay to Play Resources

With the controversy surrounding Gov. Blagojevich, I thought it would be useful to post some Illinois pay to play resources: The State of Illinois’ Sell 2 Illinois site What All State Vendors Need to Know Executive Order No. 3 Illinois Public High Education Procurement Bulletin

100 Families, $100,000

The Post describes how the Obama campaign raised $100,000 from certain families. The families gave to as many as five committees, records show, and 27 of the 94 families also bundled money from others, collecting millions of dollars on top of their personal donations. … Under the law, the maximum amount an individual can give […]

Organizing for America

President-elect Obama has formed what appears to be a new project of the Democratic National Committee called Organizing for America, according to this report. The new group will be the flagship of “Obama 2.0” as many people have taken to calling the transformation of the political organization created during the 2008 campaign. Ambinder also covers […]