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1 day ago by realsbcounty

You’ve got to hand it to the recently adjourned 2008-09 San Bernardino County grand jury. It identified the county’s chronic ethical problems as warranting an entire, separate section in the grand jury report, which is usually organized by dry divisions: administrative, audit/fiscal, human services, ...

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7 days ago by Viper

SAN BERNARDINO – In its final report, the San Bernardino County grand jury Wednesday recommended campaign contribution limits for elected county officials and streamlining reports of gifts. However, 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said he would oppose any campaign contribution caps — an issu ...

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11 days ago by system

Keeping Tabs on PMA Group’s Clients As the House Ethics Committee continues its investigation of the lawmakers financially connected to the defunct lobbying firm PMA Group, we want to make sure you’ve got updated tools to do some of your own detective work. Here are a few of our observations based o ...

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15 days ago by admin

A study issued in June 2009 by the nonprofit National Institute on Money in State Politics found that Oregon candidate races are becoming ever more expensive and ever less competitive. The study found that candidates for state and local office in Oregon raised and spent 29% more in 2008 than in 2004 ...

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15 days ago by admin

Supporters of LNG build a pipeline to Oregon lawmakers by Ted Sickinger June 8, 2009 Of all the energy issues circulating through the Oregon Legislature, none is more acrimonious than proposals to build new terminals and pipelines to import liquefied natural gas. The issue has spawned peculiar allia ...

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36 days ago by Ryan Pagelow

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65 days ago by Ben

The Hill provides a birds-eye Beltway view of the Republican primary challenge shaping up to take out the indecisive and vulnerable Michael Bennet, Colorado’s newly selected junior U.S. Senator. Writes Aaron Blake: Republicans lately have been talking a lot about fresh faces, with mixed success in a ...

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66 days ago by kencollier

The Houston Chronicle has put together an analysis that shows that Perry’s appointees accounted for about $4.9 million in campaign contributions to his campaign. The story points out that only about one in ten donors have given money to Perry. However, university regents account for about half of th ...

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80 days ago by Ben

So yesterday I receive this verbatim email message from a mysterious “Victorila Rasheem” (all errors of spelling and syntax preserved): I think taht your website should do a think on Cleve Tidwell. Most say that he has the support of most if not all of the major donors in the state. Also much of the ...

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87 days ago by David Sirota

The Reward Method of corruption is pretty straightforward: As opposed to the Payoff Method whereby a campaign contribution is made and then a favor is legislated, the Reward Method gives a politician a goodie after a favor is done, sorta like a dog being given a treat for rolling over. We often thin ...

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