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Facebook and Republicans, alternative engine news, draft EO issues, and #tcamp11 is coming in today’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 27, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, Indiana, IRS, LDA, Maryland, Nevada, Social Media, Voting

DOES FACEBOOK OWE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE? RedState has a post here about President Obama’s recent event at Facebook headquarters. “When the GOP has a nominee, Facebook should be fair and give the GOP nominee equal time.” FORMER SENATOR COLEMAN MOVES. Politico has the news. “Former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman is headed to law/lobbying powerhouse Hogan […]

Got Influence? Nonprofit news, a guilty plea, Vermont solicitations, and more political law links for today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 26, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, House, IRS, Vermont

ROGERS’ NONPROFITS IN THE NEWS. Politico reports. “Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has funneled more than $236 million in federal funds since 2000 to a web of nonprofit groups he created back home in the Bluegrass State, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group.” GUILTY […]

Legalizing bribery, plea in Carib News case, cooling off periods, and more in political law links of the day

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 15, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Georgia, HLOGA, House, IRS, Wisconsin

SETH GODIN ON TRANSPARENCY. Here (where he also discusses legalizing bribery). GUILTY PLEA IN CARIBBEAN TRIP CASE. Roll Call reports. “The New York newspaper publisher who organized an annual Caribbean conference attended by some members of the Congressional Black Caucus pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about how the 2007 trip was financed.” The […]