An interesting new report from U.S. PIRG, “Saving Dollars, Saving Democracy,” was released today and is posted on their website. According to their research examining 100 counties, PIRG looked at what they say is the millions of taxpayer dollars wasted and election officials’ effort spent, in their view, on time-consuming and costly registration process. The report […]
Day: May 6, 2009
Gifts to Members and Criminal Law
Robert Walker, former Chief Counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee and now at Wiley Rein, criticizes the Public Corruption Prosecutions Improvements Act in this Roll Call piece. First, criminalizing gift rules and regulations would accelerate the politicizing of the ethics process by dramatically escalating the stakes in the perennial Washington game of “gotcha” played by […]
Donors Seek End to Donations
A group of political donors is supporting a proposal for public financing of campaigns, according to this report. The 58 deep-pocketed donors, under the umbrella of the Public Campaign Action Fund, will make their plea in a letter Wednesday to be delivered to every Democratic member of Congress, CNN has learned. “With so much at […]