Is public financing of campaigns in danger in Arizona? KSWT reports. Arizona voters would decide whether to gut the state’s public campaign finance system under a proposed ballot measure approved Monday by the state Senate. It would amend the Arizona Constitution to bar use of tax money for political campaigns. That would effectively terminate the […]
Day: March 1, 2010
Vindicated Michigan Chamber of Commerce seeks Declaratory Ruling on state law issues
In 1990, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce sought to run this ad but the Supreme Court, in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, upheld the state law banning such communications. In January, the Supreme Court overruled Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and held that such ads are constitutionally protected. So, twenty years after the […]
Lobbying jackpot in Massachusetts
The Boston Herald has the latest on gambling interests’ lobbying activity here. The amount spent by firms, unions and interest groups hoping to influence the gambling debate has grown from just over $800,000 in 2006 to more than $2 million in 2009, according to an Associated Press review of records filed with the secretary of […]