The Des Moines Register reports on legislative activity in Iowa on lobbyist events and candidate draft committee disclosure.
Day: January 22, 2010
NJ: Citizens United and the states
This Star-Ledger editorial discusses Citizens United. And it could get worse. Sen. Bill Baroni, a Republican attorney and the state Legislature’s leading expert on campaign finance, warns that this decision opens the door to challenges against New Jersey’s pay-to-play laws, and its ban on political spending by casinos, banks, insurers, and utilities. Baroni called for […]
Senate Rules Committee: Friend request accepted
Senate Rules opined on official Facebook pages for Senators, according to this Roll Call report. I’ll post any documentation on the move when I find it. Here’s an earlier story on what was being considered. A growing number of senators have Facebook pages and some have received attention for their Twitter use. But confusion continues […]