Month: March 2010

Candidate joke on selling cows to self-finance campaign

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 8, 2010
Categories In FEC

The Tolbert Report has the scoop on a candidate in Arkansas who tweeted about selling cows to finance his campaign.

Robert Barnett profile

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 7, 2010
Categories In Uncategorized

The Post profiles Williams & Connolly’s Robert Barnett today. To list Barnett as a signifier of Washington connectedness is like calling the sun a symbol of heat. This is good for his clients, who pay him $975 an hour, but Barnett’s virtual monopoly on the specialty of helping public figures cash in — on power […]

Limiting lobbyists’ text messages

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 7, 2010
Categories In California

Here’s a story about lawmakers receiving text messages from lobbyists and potential legislation banning the practice. “Anybody can send us a letter. Anybody can send us an e-mail, but a text message is something you can only receive if you have somebody’s phone number, and that is a differential access,” [Assembly Speaker John] Pérez said.