CNN reports: Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila has been charged with 19 counts in a long-running campaign finance probe. The indictment also charged 12 others associated with Acevedo’s Popular Democratic Party stemming from a grand jury investigation that began more than two years ago, acting U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez told reporters Thursday. The […]
Author: Eric Brown
Foreign National Ban
Today’s “Inside the Beltway” addresses alleged foreign national involvement in U.S. elections. Are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elton John breaking U.S. laws by allowing the British pop singer, a foreign national, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign by performing a concert on her behalf? That’s the question Inside the […]
Florida: Public Financing on the Ballot?
Pending a Florida House and Senate vote, public financing could be on the ballot. Florida voters would then decide to kill or continue its public financing system for races for governor and other statewide offices.