{"id":217352,"date":"2010-01-19T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1320"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:07:07","slug":"massachusetts-end-game-new-yorks-need-for-ethics-reform-and-more-in-capital-eye-opener-january-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217352","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts’ End Game, New York’s Need for Ethics Reform and More in Capital Eye Opener: January 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"vote.jpg\"<\/span>Your daily dose of news and tidbits from the world of money in politics:<\/p>\n

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AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME:<\/b> No need to wait for November for Election Day, as Massachusetts finds itself in the midst of one heckuva U.S. Senate race — a race that concludes today<\/a> with a special election<\/a>. Democrat Martha Coakley, once the odds-on front-runner who’s lately witnessed Republican Scott Brown surge in opinion polls, is attempting to carry her party’s mantle in replacing the late Ted Kennedy, who occupied the open Senate seat for 47 years. The outcome of this race has major implications for both parties, as a Republican victory would generally give the GOP enough votes in the Senate to sustain filibusters. Illustrating the seat’s importance: None other than President Barack Obama has campaigned<\/a> on behalf of Coakley, Massachusetts’ attorney general. Brown, for his part, is predicting an upset — and what an upset it would indeed be, considering the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation is composed of Democrats. Through the end of 2009, Coakley had also enjoyed a significant lead in fund-raising<\/a>, albeit a lead that doesn’t appear to have paid her nearly the political dividends for which she had hoped.<\/div>\n
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ETHICS REFORM IN NEW YORK? HA!<\/b> That’s the message<\/a> from the Albany Times-Union<\/i>, which writes in an editorial that New York’s state politicians must conduct (very) public hearings on improving the quality of governmental ethics. “We mean public hearings or town hall-style meetings around the state — where people can tell you what they think,” the newspaper writes. “Not in voice mails you’ll never listen to or letters and e-mails you won’t read. Not in staged, testimony-by-invitation-only events. Who knows? You might hear some compliments.” Or maybe not, considering New York has jettisoned one philandering governor, Eliot Spitzer, in favor of a highly unpopular one in David Paterson. Meanwhile, former state senate majority leader Joseph Bruno appears primed for hard time<\/a>, and no one can seem to pass a budget on time.  <\/p>\n
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CRP, IN THE NEWS:<\/b> U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer<\/a> and Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a> share more than a state and a political party. They also share a boatload of campaign contributors, reports the New York Post<\/i>‘s Jennifer Fermino, who bases this report<\/a> on our research … The New York Times<\/i>‘ David Kirkpatrick notes our lobbying research in his front-page article about federal lobbyists who aren’t so keen on remaining registered lobbyists — but still lobby. Sort of … Raju Chebium of the Gannett Washington Bureau quotes us and uses our data in explaining<\/a> how U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone<\/a> is the New Jersey congressional delegation’s top recipient of health care sector money … Associated Press<\/i> reporters Rachel Beck and Stevenson Jacobs, in this article<\/a> about the banking industry, note our research on how the finance, insurance and real estate sector has contributed money to federal politicians.  <\/p>\n
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Have a news tip or link to pass along? We want to hear from you! E-mail us at press@crp.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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