As I noted in May here, the Maryland State Board of Elections has apparently approved new rules requiring social media accounts established by political committees to disclose the identity of the political committee or person behind the account and keep records of messages disseminated through social networking. It looks like Facebook supported the rules, based […]
Month: June 2010
Defining “lobbyist” in Utah
The Salt Lake Tribune covers a controversy involving a candidate for Senate accused of failing to register as a state lobbyist.
Federal job inducements to avoid contested primaries
The Post raises some questions about the Obama administration’s contact with Andrew Romanoff. If this is not a quid pro quo — a federal job in exchange for dropping the Senate bid — it is uncomfortably close. Substitute Karl Rove for Jim Messina and imagine the uproar if the Bush administration had engaged in such […]