PLANE ISSUES IN MISSOURI. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. “McCaskill said she is sending a check to the St. Louis County Collector of Revenue for $287,273 to cover three years worth of personal property taxes. She also said she has instructed her husband — a wealthy developer — to ‘sell the damn plane.’” Politico’s story […]
Category: Const Law Issues
CU, Koch, Casino Jack, and commission appointments in today’s political law links
CANDIDATE LOAN STORY. In Roll Call this morning. “Members of Congress have discovered another way to err on their annual financial disclosure reports.” KOCH AND POMPEO. The Post reports. “When Mike Pompeo needed funding for a Wichita aerospace company, one of the places he and his partners went for help was Koch Industries, a hometown […]
OCE transparency, OPA politics, and more in Friday political law quick hits
PRAISE FOR OCE TRANSPARENCY. Public Citizen’s Lisa Gilbert praises the Office of Congressional Ethics’ transparency in this Roll Call editorial: “And, while we frown at the Ethics Committee’s tendency to let Members off the hook for Washington-style ‘business as usual,’ we can only hope the increased transparency and scrutiny the OCE has brought to the […]