A group alleged that a Visa and US Bank event at the Democratic National Convention is violating House rules.
Any freshman Democrat who does participate in the August 27 reception should be treated by the public and media as failing to comply with the language, meaning, purpose and spirit of the new House ethics rule prohibiting Representatives from participating in lobbyist-funded events at the conventions to “honor” the Representatives.
I’m sure you’ve seen the “Secret Money Project” at NPR. Hard to say what the secret is when information about every ad they’ve posted so far has been or will be publicly disclosed on at least one report filed with the government.
The Obama campaign has reacted to a recent American Issues Project advertisement.
The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the strictures of federal election law,” Obama general counsel Bob Bauer wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney last week in a letter provided to Politico. Bauer argued that by advocating Obama’s defeat, the ad should be subject to the contribution limits of federal campaign law, not the anything-goes regime of issue advocacy.