Month: May 2009

Twitter as Political Weapon

The Politico notes that Twitter may become a key political weapon in the next election cycle. Indeed, the robocalls that dominated the past two election cycles could become robotweets in 2010. Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.), for example, bypassed the local media recently and used Twitter as a direct response to a robocall that criticized her on […]

Florida Lobbying

What’s the state of the lobbying business in Florida?  According to this report, business is good. The Capitol lobbying corps earned up to $45 million from January through March to influence the Legislature. That’s essentially the same amount that all 2,000 state lobbyists made in the same period in 2008, when Florida wasn’t in a […]