Category: Kentucky

Kentucky plan to amend campaign finance law dashed

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that a plan to amend Kentucky’s campaign finance limits was aborted in the legislature’s final session. A closed-door committee of Senate and House members Wednesday night added language to House Bill 152 — a routine elections bill — to increase the sums that candidates and political parties can collect; let the […]

Kentucky pay to play and lobbyist rules news

What’s new in Kentucky on the ethics and lobbying front?  How about pay to play restrictions and lobbyist rules? Kentucky’s Senate this week passed an ethics-reform bill aimed at preventing the cozy monetary relationship some state contractors and special-interest lobbyists could develop with some elected officials. . . . Lobbyists, meanwhile, would also face added […]