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Lugar loss moves Senate closer to GOP ‘gang dictatorship’ government
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana’s six-term Republican Sen. Richard Lugar will be saying good-bye to his constituents this year, having lost his primary bid on Tuesday to Tea Party challenger Richard Mourdock. Indiana’s State
Tags: Republican Senate, 2012 elections, shrinking government, lobbyists, citizens united, superPac's, democracy, Paul Ryan
AT&T lobbying to end land line service could lead to price increases for consumers
AT&T is leading the charge of lobbyists for new laws that would no longer require mandatory land line service. The war is being waged state by state, as more American's get their telephone service through wireless providers. &
Tags: AT&T, landline service, ending landline service, wireless, lobbyists, consumer price increases, deregulation, economics, cable television, land line
High-speed rail from the Vegas Strip to Rodeo Drive; is this the way to keep money in circulation?
Two decades ago visitors and residents alike were being polled as to whether or not a train from the Vegas Strip to (at that time) Rodeo Drive would be something they would be interested in or not. It isn’t important what the poll
Tags: FRA.Federa; Railroad Administration, High Speed Rail, DesertXpress, Harry Reid, Gambling groups, lobbyists, nevada, los angeles, Las Vegas, political-news
Open Government Institute of Colorado files ethics complaint against ex-Rep. McGihon over fundraiser event
Font Resize The Denver Post An open-government organization filed an ethics complaint Thursday against lobbyist and former Rep. Anne McGihon, saying she improperly lent her name to a campaign event for a Democratic state House candidate. The
Tags: Campaign, lobbyists, denver, political-news, Dianne Primavera
So much money, so few lobbyists in D.C. How does that math work?
Spending to lobby the US government has almost tripled since 1998, but numbers of registered lobbyists have barely budged. How the work gets done without the scarlet 'L' of lobbyist registration...We ask that because apparently a lot of influence-
Tags: lobbyists, Boston, political-news, political corruption, lobbying, Business Finance
Rybak's gubernatorial campaign fined $750 for illegal contributions
Rybak's 2010 gubernatorial campaign committee $750 for accepting contributions from lobbyists during that year's legislative session. An order issued on Tuesday by the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said that the committee
Tags: lobbyists, Minneapolis, R. T. Rybak, Minnesota, lobbying, political-news, Margaret Anderson Kelliher
Meet the Bundlers (At Least Some of Them), Part II
Five of them currently work for businesses with lobbying operations, and two of them -- Michael Kempner of MWW Group and Matt Gorman of Fabiani & Co. -- are former lobbyists themselves. As OpenSecrets Blog previously reported , Mitt Romney 's
Tags: lobbyists, President, candidate, Romney, presidential election, Public, Newt Gingric, Obama
Lobbyist disclosure goes unchecked, campaign finance regulator says
The state's top regulator of lobbyists and campaign spending said today that the public is being kept in the dark about the full picture of influence peddling at the State Capitol because of staff shortages in his office. The state Campaign Finance
Tags: lobbyists, Gary Goldsmith, Hilda Bettermann, campaign finance, Dayton, political corruption, lobbying, political-news
Florists smell handsome profits on Valentine's day
Rating Grace Wanyeki a flower vendor looks forward to being Sh150,000 richer by the close of business on Tuesday. She plies her trade at a small boutique on Monrovia Lane, Nairobi. Valentine's Day, for most investors in the flower industry, is boom
Tags: flowers, flower vendor, KFC, Ms Wanyeki, Kenya, Nairobi, Valentine's Day, Kenya Flower Council, Agriculture in Kenya, lobbyists
Financial lobby in holding pattern
That may as well be the financial lobby's message to federal lawmakers this year as banks and investment houses acknowledge they've largely written off 2012 as lost for affecting major policy priorities such as undoing Wall Street reform or
Tags: lobbyists, Congress, United Kingdom, Reading, corporate crime, security, lobbying, finance, business-news, political-news
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