The Senate Ethics Committee dismissed a complaint involving allegations that she violated Senate rules by sponsoring a $2 million earmark to support the literacy program Voyager Expanded Learning in District of Columbia public schools. Landrieu’s campaign had earlier received $30,000 in campaign contributions from the company’s executives and related individuals.
Month: November 2009
Twitter and election law: Oh, Canada!
Thanks to former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission David Mason for passing along this interesting article on Canadian election law and Twitter. As Canadians in four electoral districts spread right across the giant country cast ballots on Monday to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons, Elections Canada asked a newspaper to remove […]
No contingency payments for placement agents
One company has proposed an approach to pay to play abuse in the pension fund industry. The president of Calpers urged fellow board members at the biggest U.S. public pension fund on Wednesday to back his plan to require placement agents to be subjected to laws for lobbyists in response to events alleging their “undue […]