The recent financial crises has broken up the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae lobbying shops, according to this report. Before they were taken over by the government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent millions of dollars a year on internal and outside lobbyists to keep politicians at bay, countering legislative efforts to regulate them more […]
Author: Eric Brown
CA: Public Financing
Public financing will be on 2010 the ballot in California. AB 583 would establish a pilot project for voluntary full public financing system for Secretary of State candidates in 2014 and 2018 if it is passed by a vote of the people on the June 2010 ballot. It is modeled after systems that have been […]
Judicial Branch Gift Rule
I don’t post much on ethics rules covering judges, but this entry caught my attention. Congress recently passed covering federal judges’ acceptance of club memberships worth more than $50. Some Supreme Court justice, have, apparently, reported the value of such gifts on their financial disclosure reports, including Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s membership in the […]