The Post reports on Monica Conyers’ guilty plea here. In the snow-covered parking lot of a McDonald’s in Detroit two years ago, City Council member Monica Conyers met with a waste-management consultant who slipped her an envelope stuffed with as much as $3,000 in cash. The under-the-table payment, made shortly after she cast the swing […]
Month: July 2009
The Times on Austin
This Times editorial, imploring the Supreme Court against overruling Austin, begins: With a little-noticed order last week, we fear the Supreme Court has set the stage for dismantling the longstanding ban on corporate spending in elections for president and Congress. If those restrictions are overturned, it would be a disaster for democracy.
White House’s Gibbs on Washington Post Salons
Who was invited to attend The Washington Post Company’s “salons”? Yesterday’s press briefing provided this exchange: Q Was anyone from the White House invited to attend these Washington Post salons that were reported this morning? And what is the White House’s official policy on members of the administration doing things like this, regardless of who […]