National Public Radio's Peter Overby covered yesterday's Fair Elections Now Act announcement. You can listen to the clip after the jump.

This past Friday, former Senator and current presidential candidate John Edwards called for public financing of all elections during an interview on Real Time With Bill Maher. You can watch a clip of the interview after the jump.

It's official, Ralph Reed has ended his bid for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.

Read the statement by David Donnelly, Director, Campaign Money Watch, below.

Here is the AP story.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government watchdog group, called on both the I.R.S. and Congress to investigate Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) for alleged ethical violations.

As posted in our blog back on April 25, Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) was making it his own personal mission to prevent funding to buy land for a September 11 memorial in Pennsylvania to honor those killed on Flight 93. His excuse? He was worried that enough private funding wouldn’t be raised and the government would have to foot the bill for the memorial. This is the same Rep. Taylor who helped secure a $3 million appropriation for a Jack Ambramoff client.

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) has co-sponsored a bill along with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) that would curb the use of corporate jets by politicians. Currently, members of congress can use these jets (which are provided by the likes of Bell South and Wal-Mart among others) as long as they reimburse the company the amount of a first class fare—which is currently $6,995. Problem is Santorum is one of the abusers of this perk.