Category: Minnesota

Tech and recalls, Waters and ethics, transparency transparency and more political law links for Thursday

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 24, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, California, FEC, Florida, House, Minnesota, Voting

TECHNOLOGY AND THE GROWTH OF RECALLS. Blog post here. (I added the new and exciting Recall Elections Blog to my ever-growing list of links to your right.) IT’S MILLER TIME FOR PAC. Roll Call reports that Alaska’s Joe Miller will chair a PAC. WATERS AND ETHICS. The Hill reports. “Public interest groups on Wednesday asked […]

Vino, FARA guru, big asks, anti-tea news, and other political law links for today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 18, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, FARA, FEC, House, LDA, Maryland, Meta, Michigan, Minnesota

IN-KIND VINO VERITAS. Roll Call reports. “Since 2001, donors attending [Mike Thompson’s] parties and other contributors have given the California Democrat more than 800 gifts of wine worth about $340,000, according to a CQ MoneyLine study of campaign finance reports.” EARMARK REQUESTS. Mike Thompson is also noted in this story about earmark requests. LAWSUIT OVER […]

L-PACs, not the real Koch, and more political law links for the day

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 9, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, DC, FEC, Georgia, Minnesota, Wisconsin

CALL TO LEADERSHIP (PACS). The Times reports. “On Monday, Rep. Kristi Noem, a Republican from South Dakota, became the latest freshman member of Congress to form a leadership political action committee, commonly used to bolster the political aspirations of its founder.” CRANK KOCH CALL ETHICS COMPLAINT. TPM has the link to the story here. “The […]