Author: Eric Brown

WY: Changed Limits

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 17, 2009
Categories In Wyoming

Wyoming is considering an increase in contribution limits, according to this report. Dan Neal, executive director of the Equality State Policy Center, a Laramie-based policy watchdog group, said in an interview after the hearing that the $2,300 cap is too high. He said campaign costs have not risen sufficiently in Wyoming in recent years to […]

“The Triumph of Lobbying”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 17, 2009
Categories In LDA

Robert Kaiser’s new book, The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrision of American Government is reviewed in the SF Chronicle here. Kaiser does a great job of laying out the current situation and how we got here, but thankfully does not waste too much time on solutions. There’s already a library’s worth of material put […]

FEC Hears from Sunlight

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 16, 2009
Categories In FEC

Clay Johnson of Sunlightlabs testified yesterday at a Federal Election Commission hearing to discuss the agency’s procedures. The Sunlight Foundation’s comments are available here and suggest ways that the agency can increase the ease of access to government data to foster transparency.