Politico reports on a lawsuit filed by a lobbyist involving a $1.6 million earmark. In his lawsuit, Adrian Plesha says that James Ferguson IV — the son of the owner of the company that got the blimp funding — owes him more than $262,000 in unpaid lobbying fees and expenses.
Day: September 1, 2009
Citizens United and the Massachusetts Senate Race
With the Massachusetts Senate race primary set for December 8, 2009 and the special General set for January 19, 2010, the contest will certainly be the first Senate election in a post-Citizens United world, whatever that may mean.
Locational Privacy in the Internet Age
Adam Cohen discusses locational privacy in this editorial. Corporations and the government can keep track of what political meetings people attend, what bars and clubs they go to, whose homes they visit. It is the fact that people’s locations are being recorded “pervasively, silently, and cheaply that we’re worried about,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said […]