What’s new in Kentucky on the ethics and lobbying front? How about pay to play restrictions and lobbyist rules? Kentucky’s Senate this week passed an ethics-reform bill aimed at preventing the cozy monetary relationship some state contractors and special-interest lobbyists could develop with some elected officials. . . . Lobbyists, meanwhile, would also face added […]
Month: March 2010
Shareholders, Citizens United, and a video contest
U.S. PIRG’s Lisa Gilbert discusses The Shareholder Protection Act and a new video contest in this Huffington Post post.
Politics and governing, White House style
The Times Magazine features this story on White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. It begins describing a White House meeting of a dozen or so officials, including White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard, strategizing about the then-upcoming Massachusetts Senate election.