WINNING ONLINE IN 2012. A webinar is online here.
EARMARKS AND COPING. Roll Call. “Winning Congressional earmarks wasn’t just big business on K Street. It was the business, and most everyone downtown had a piece of it.”
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE FORUM? HuffPo. “On Wednesday morning, dozens of activists and more than a dozen members of Congress gathered in a Capitol Visitor Center hearing room to show their support for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.”
CORP. POLITICAL SPENDING. The Post. “Health insurance giant WellPoint is the latest target of an increasingly aggressive campaign to force disclosure of corporate political and lobbying expenditures, including payments to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has become more active in elections over the past decade.”
NEW MACK SUPER PAC. Story here. “Freedom PAC, which can raise and spend unlimited sums from corporations to help out Mack, can effectively erase the cash deficit Mack has with Nelson. The committees are prohibited from coordinating most of their activities with the campaigns.”
PAYMENT TO TREASURY. Story here. “Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, turned over to the U.S. Treasury $41,600 in questionable campaign donations connected to a once-prominent Nevada power broker who is under federal investigation for questionable political contributions, campaign finance records show.”
PAYDAY LENDER GIVING. Story here. “The payday loan industry is spending big on politics in advance of expected scrutiny from the federal government’s new financial watchdog agency.”
LOBBYIST EMAIL IN THE NEWS. Story here. “A lobbyist’s email was sent under state Rep. Bob Ramsey’s name, using his legislative office computer, to urge that all state representatives vote against a bill on taxing roll-your-own cigarettes, those involved said Tuesday.”
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