“I SHOULD HAVE VOTED AT A HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS.” Story here. “The Maine Republican Party says 19 people who registered to vote on Election Day 2004 used a Holiday Inn Express in South Portland as their home address.” LIGHTSQUARED RULES FAST-TRACKED. The Post. “Republicans questioned Thursday why the Federal Communications Commission fast-tracked an initial approval for […]
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Lobbying for Egypt, what the FEC did, and other Friday political law links
LOBBYIST SWITCH FOR EGYPT? Roll Call reports. “The government of Egypt has fallen, but its lobbyists in the U.S. soldier on.” K STREET PRIMARY. It’s undecided. “Many K Street insiders are close to several of the likely contenders and are waiting to see who will officially jump into the race before showing their cards.” The […]
Foreign convention involvement and other political law news for this morning
CONVENTION AND HOST COMMITTEE FUNDING. The AP covers recent developments on the Democratic convention here. I don’t know anything about the site called DemConWatch.com, but they quote a document purporting to list the restrictions on host committee donations. It looks like domestic subsidiaries of foreign companies are not prohibited from making in-kind donations, “provided that […]