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March 16, 2017  •  

Thursday’s Government Relations and Ethics News

K StreetLobbying

Lobbyists Scramble for Access in Trump Era” by Megan Wilson for The Hill

Missouri: “Missouri House Votes for Local Lobbyist Gift Ban” by Associated Press for Southeast Missourian

Campaign Finance

Kentucky: “Lawmakers Approve Flurry of Bills as End of Legislative Session Looms” by Daniel Desrochers and Jack Brammer for Lexington Herald-Leader

New Mexico: “Legislature Passes Campaign Finance Reform Years in The Making” by Sandra Fish for New Mexico In Depth

Ethics

The Onion Struggles to Lampoon Trump” by Charles Bethea for New Yorker

‘People Are Scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump’s White House” by Alex Isenstadt and Kenneth Vogel for Politico

Trump-Era Republicans Unleash String of Inflammatory Comments” by Elise Viebeck for Washington Post

Admiral, Seven Others Charged with Corruption in New ‘Fat Leonard’ Indictment” by Craig Whitlock for Washington Post

California: “OC Gets Its First Ethics Director, But No Recruitment Yet for Commission” by Nick Gerda for Voice of OC

Elections

Prerequisite for Key White House Posts: Loyalty, not experience” by Sharon LaFraniere, Nicholas Confessore, and Jesse Drucker for New York Times

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