If the blue-and-yellow yard signs advertising Mike Aguirre’s campaign for city attorney look familiar, that’s because some of them are the exact same signs he used four years ago when he first ran for the office. Stored away for safe keeping, a few of the signs survived almost four years of Aguirre’s tenure as city […]
Author: Eric Brown
New York Limits
This article discusses contribution limits in New York and potential violations. About 180 businesses appear to have exceeded New York’s campaign-finance donation limit by a total of more than $600,000 in 2007, according to a report by good-government groups. Twenty-eight of those businesses, mostly architecture and engineering firms, gave to Rochester-area candidates, according to the […]
Alabama: PAC to PAC Ban
Alabama’s PAC to PAC ban is in the news. For the seventh year running, a bill to ban transfers of money between political action committees died in the 2008 regular session of the Alabama Legislature. Lawmakers who enjoy the loose provisions of the existing law, which allows donors to hide their contributions by letting them […]