It’s here and it involves recent issues related to BP. The case illustrates the murky world of advocacy-for-hire in Washington, where ideological groups wage stealth messaging campaigns with little disclosure of their funding or possible motives. Such arrangements rarely come to light since most advocacy groups are organized as nonprofits that do not have to […]
Day: August 5, 2010
Your taxpayer-funded government automaker’s dollars at work
The Post reports on activity disclosed by General Motors on its recent LD-203.
The Office of Congressional Ethics in target
The Times writes that the Office of Congressional Ethics shouldn’t be scaled back. The Republican minority leader, John Boehner, said he wants to “take a look” at the office if his party regains majority power — a reminder that his members fiercely opposed the quasi-independent office when it was created two years ago by Speaker […]