The Hill reports that House Republicans have hired a firm that worked for the Obama campaign to help with new media tools.
Day: October 8, 2009
Pay to play update in New York
Here’s the latest on a pay to play case in New York. New York is just one of the states with a history of dubious relationships between the politicians who influence or control public pension funds and those who want investments from the billions of dollars in cash they hold (the state’s pension fund alone […]
Hiring former staffers and the PMA Group (remember them?)
This Post article discusses the benefits that flow to firms hiring former staffers as lobbyists and also includes a reference to PMA Group. The Center for Public Integrity found that 10 of the 16 members of the House subcommittee on defense appropriations obtained 30 earmarks in the bill worth $103 million for contractors currently or […]