The NY Times offers this editorial, which begins: “now that House Democrats are beyond the spotlight of their ballyhooed first 100 hours, there are signs of foot-dragging on the keystone of their promised lobbying reform: forcing disclosure of the… Continue reading

I just received a copy of Elections for Sale: The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying, edited by Frederic Charles Schaffer, which I look forward to reading. I also just received from Amazon copies of Jan Crawford Greenberg’s Supreme … Continue reading

The S.F. Chronicle offers Ballot counts stretch days, weeks — delay final election results. The Sacramento Bee offers Huge Election Spending: $330 million devoted to initiatives, with $128 million for governor’s race. The LA Times offers Governor’s Campaign … Continue reading

The Boston Globe offers this report. NPR also has this audio report. You can find testimony from yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee here.

See this post at The Politico.

Chuck Bell has written this post for the Flash Report.

Gerry Hebert, the Bailout King, has issued this press release. An interesting snippet: “Hebert also noted that Essex County has the highest percentage of minority voters of any local government that has sought or obtained a bailout. The County… Continue reading

CQ Politics offers this report. See also these thoughts from Adam Bonin, Ed Morrisey and Instapundit, who calls this an incumbent protection bill. I’m not sure I see the incumbent protection here, but I do see an… Continue reading

See Bob Bauer and Allison Hayward. More reactions, especially from the reform community, as they come in. Meanwhile, I understand that the E&J will be discussed at today’s hearing in the Shays II case.