In Baltimore, H&S Bakery owner John Paterakis Sr. was charged in connection with an alleged campaign finance violation. According to the latest indictment, [Ronald] Lipscomb paid a polling firm $12,500 in summer 2007 for a campaign study for [Councilwoman Helen] Holton, then up for re-election to city council. Weeks later, a company controlled by Paterakis […]
Month: August 2009
UPS and FedEx in Lobbying Battle
According to this Post report, UPS employees are alleging that letters they wrote to Congress may not have been entirely voluntary. “They are forcing us to write letters at our UPS center,” one employee wrote on BrownCafe.com, a Web site independent of UPS. Another user wrote: “My System Manager told us ‘this is not an optional […]
TARP Lobbying Rules
TARP lobbying guidelines are awaiting White House approval, according to this Hill report. The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Project’s report, “Opportunities to Strengthen Controls to Avoid Undue External Influence Over Capital Purchase Program Decision-Making”, is available here.