NJ.com provides an overview of the New Jersey’s pay to play rules here. Thanks to loopholes in campaign finance laws at the state and county levels, the biggest government contractors in New Jersey routinely get lucrative, taxpayer-funded work while simultaneously making huge contributions to the candidates who vote to approve their contracts.
Month: November 2009
New White House Counsel?
The Post reports that White House Counsel Gregory Craig will be replaced by Bob Bauer, “a Democratic lawyer who is Obama’s personal attorney.”
Times backs Office of Congressional Ethics
This Times editorial sides with the Office of Congressional Ethics in a recent controversy. The dispute might be dismissed as a turf fight, except fears are growing that opponents of the new ethics office might try and neuter it in a change of House rules next January.