McCainOff to the races Submitted by Nancy Watzman on Thu, 02/02/2006 - 5:28am.
Today is the big day: House Republicans will vote on which version of DeLay-ism will be their new majority leader: Roy Blunt (R-MS), John Boehner (R-OH), or John Shadegg (R-AZ).If you haven't yet seen the ads on these characters, click here.M...
McCain Rails Against FEC & Earmarking Submitted by Nancy Watzman on Tue, 01/17/2006 - 7:13am.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says lobbying reform won't cure what ails Washington, as reported here in the Washington Times. McCain points his finger at a "corrupt" Federal Elections Commission and at the congressional practice of "earmarking"...
Radio Report Submitted by Micah Sifry on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 12:19pm.
"To the Point" with Warren Olney was tons of fun. I went on right after Rep. Dreier. He had just sweet-talked his way through ten minutes of how he was taking his task very seriously, getting input from all sorts of people, including John Mc...
How much does it cost to silence a member of Congress? Submitted by David Donnelly on Thu, 12/15/2005 - 7:44am.
$35,000, apparently.Rep. Richard Pombo, R-CA, has refused repeated calls by Rep. George Miller, D-CA, to investigate Jack Abramoff's dealings with Native American tribes and the lobbying he did on behalf of the Northern Marianas Islands. Pomb...
DeLay Teaches Blunt Submitted by Nancy Watzman on Mon, 10/10/2005 - 5:34am.
Posted in: Abramoff | ARMPAC | McCain | PACs | political donations | Roy Blunt | Texas | Tom DeLay | vote
John B. Judis at The New Republic has a good piece on just how much Roy Blunt learned from Tom DeLay about money and politics:"[Blunt]" owes his rise in the House to the Texas congressman. But he may also one day blame DeLay for his fall, be...
We've got mail Submitted by David Donnelly on Fri, 06/24/2005 - 3:21am.
Exhibit 1 and Exhibit 2 (both large PDFs) from Sen. McCain's hearings on the Abramoff/Scanlon/Reed/DeLay/Norquist scandals involving $82 billion in bilked fees from six Native American tribes.These are treasure troves. I've gone through the ...
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Activists You Should Know posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-03-2008 A PBS producer and a writer have collaborated on a book, Your America that chronicles the work of accidental activists -- ordinary Americans who saw injustice and fought to fix it, creating successful grassroots movements for change in the process. One of the stories told is that of Jackie Thrasher a Clean Elections supporter in Arizona who went on to win a seat in the state House of Representatives. Published in: Arizona | Clean Elections Minimum Security Resort and Spa posted by Katie Schlieper on 07-01-2008 Monty Python told us to always look on the bright side of life, but former Alaska state Rep. Vic Kohring took it a bit far on his last day before beginning a three and half year prison sentence for taking bribes from Veco Corp. to advocate for a pipeline project. TPM Muckraker has the highlights from Vic's last day on the outside, his bizarre roadside thank you to the people of Alaska, and his ambitions for life behind bars. Published in: Alaska | Clean Elections | corruption | VECO | Vic Kohring Million Reasons Why Not posted by Katie Schlieper on 06-30-2008 The editorial boards the Washington Post and the New York Times are none too pleased with the Supreme Court ruling against the Millionaire's Amendment provision in BCRA that provided rescue funds to candidates facing wealthy, self-financing opponents. Read on for excerpts from the editorials. Published in: BRCA | campaign finance | Supreme Court |
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