President Barack Obama named additional significant campaign bundlers to ambassadorships, according to this report.
Month: July 2009
New York Reforms Endorsed
To fix what it sees as dysfunction in Albany, The Times endorses a number of measures, including ethics reform, campaign finance reform, redistricting reform, and others.
Access, Media, Lobbyists, and Cash
The Politico reports that The Post is facilitating contact between lobbyists and government officials, for a fee. For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off the record, non-confrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.