Rep. Buyer will retire from Congress, according to this report. The report references an ethics allegation involving a charity. Questions were first raised in August about the way the Congressman ran his nonprofit Frontier Foundation, which operated out of his campaign offices in Monticello, Ind. Buyer later made structural changes to the organization and moved […]
Month: January 2010
Forget Avatar – anyone see Casino Jack and the United States of Money?
The Post profiles “Casino Jack and the United States of Money.” The film is about Jack Abramoff and premiered at Sundance. It will reportedly be distributed more widely in May 2010. Even though Abramoff has long since been indicted and sentenced, many of the issues that swirled around him still percolate today, from the Supreme […]
Broder on Citizens United
David Broder’s column tomorrow discusses Citizens United and campaign finance reform. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene to canvass ideas for going further in order to limit the newly proclaimed rights of domestic corporations and unions to finance campaign ads from their own treasuries. One option, a Schumer aide told me, might be […]