campaign finance

Leatherwood goes after Blackburn on effectiveness, ethics, but faces fund-raising troubles

The FEC newly minted quorum will be giving Rep. Marsha Blackburn hassles now that the governing body can now act on the complaints filed against her — but she does have an ace in hole:

Well, finally, John McCain says something that isn't as sugar-coated as usual about his young, inexperienced colleague in the Senate. We knew from looking under The Bus™ that it's never safe to be an associate of Obama's and get in the way of political expediency; now his once-firmed positions on such political staples like NAFTA and Campaign Finance (public or private? Welcome, Uncle George

Everyone likes to talk about PACs and lobbyist but nobody likes to talk about the bundles:

Sean Braisted discusses the red-headed stepchild of today’s Supreme Court rulings the striking down of “the millionaires clause’:

I won’t serve as an apologist for the weak backbone of the Democrats in Washington right now. In my personal political views, I am very liberal when it comes to social causes because they impact me personally and actually more fiscally conservative when it comes to this nation’s money because it’s my money.

Open Left recounts the numerous occasions where, in their estimation, the ambitions of Harold Ford, Jr. have been thwarted by progressives:

Former blogger Alan Coverstone, currently seeking the 9th District school board seat, is getting some help from folks in influential places:

Disgraced state Senator Jerry Cooper may get a piece of road on Highway 70 named in his honor:

Cooper resigned from the Legislature on in December after paying a record fine for a campaign finance violation.