Month: March 2009

McAuliffe’s Lobbying Rules Proposals

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 27, 2009
Categories In Virginia

Virginia candidate for Governor Terry McAuliffe has called for a lobbyist gift ban and other changes to the state’s ethics laws and procedures.

Stimulus Lobbying Rules Decried

Lobbyists are reacting to President Obama’s restrictions on stimulus package lobbying. The Post reports. “What disqualifies lobbyists from exercising their First Amendment rights?” said J. Keith Kennedy, a top lobbyist for the Washington firm Baker Donelson. William Luneburg and Thomas Susman, co-authors of the American Bar Association’s manual on lobbying laws, said they knew of […]

Lobbyist for U.S. Attorney Spot?

The Post reports that President Obama is apparently considering former lobbyist Neil MacBride to be U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, VA. MacBride, who briefly lobbied in the mid-1990s for a high-powered D.C. law firm stocked with leading Democrats, declined to comment. Officials said no decisions have been made in the hotly contested race for U.S. attorney, […]