May 4, 2016 •
Wednesday Government Relations News
Lobbying California: “Legislature Passes Bill to Disclose Lobbying on State Contracts” by Guy Marzorati for KQED Campaign Finance New Jersey: “Ex-Birdsall Exec Admits Role in $1M Pay-to-Play Scheme” by S.P. Sullivan (NJ Advance Media) for Newark Star-Ledger New York: “Hearing […]
Lobbying
California: “Legislature Passes Bill to Disclose Lobbying on State Contracts” by Guy Marzorati for KQED
Campaign Finance
New Jersey: “Ex-Birdsall Exec Admits Role in $1M Pay-to-Play Scheme” by S.P. Sullivan (NJ Advance Media) for Newark Star-Ledger
New York: “Hearing Advances Reforms to City Campaign Finance System” by Samar Khurshid for Gotham Gazette
Ethics
“What is Corruption?” by Robert Gebelhoff for Washington Post
Alabama: “Zeigler Says He’ll File Court Motion Seeking Bentley Testimony” by Mike Cason for AL.com
New York: “Sheldon Silver, Ex-New York Assembly Speaker, Gets 12-Year Prison Sentence” by Benjamin Weiser and Vivian Yee for New York Times
Virginia: “Fla. Businessman Paid $10K for Va. Senator’s Trip to Meet Syrian President Assad” by Laura Vozzella for Washington Post
Elections
“Ted Cruz Drops Out of the Republican Presidential Race” by Sean Sullivan and Katie Zezima for Washington Post
“Sanders Wins Indiana, but Clinton Looks to November” by Heidi Przybyla for USA Today
Legislative Issues
“Now, Dennis Hastert Seems an Architect of Dysfunction as Speaker” by Carl Hulse for New York Times
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