With a real threat of antitrust and privacy regulation on the horizon, Google is on track to become this year’s top corporate lobbying spender in the US 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sunday 30 July 2017 17.Source: Why is Google spending record sums on lobbying Washington?...
Baby Boomers and other older Americans are no longer the majority of voters in U.S. presidential elections. Millennials and Generation Xers cast 69.6 million votes in the 2016 general election, a slight majority of the 137.Source: Millennials and Gen Xers outvoted Boomers and older generations in 2016 election...
A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday over whether a Watergate-era law prohibiting the government from collecting data on how Americans exercise their First Amendment rights bars President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission from American’s voting records. U.S. District Judge Royce C.Source: U.S. judge set to hear new challenge to Trump voter commission Tuesday...
Anaheim elected officials and workers will be barred from lobbying the city for two years after they leave their jobs under a new “sunshine ordinance,” the strictest restriction on government lobbying in Orange County.Source: Anaheim City Council passes county’s toughest restrictions on lobbying...
The people behind California’s latest effort to leave the United States are confident this time and are preparing to fan out across the Golden State to collect signatures for a 2018 ballot initiative.Source: ‘Calexit’ backers confident about latest plan to leave the United States...
The Republican National Committee counsel's office asked employees to preserve all documents regarding the 2016 presidential election. The memo stresses that the RNC has not been contacted in any of the investigations into possible ties between President Trump's campaign or allies and Russia.Source: RNC tells staff not to delete or alter any documents related to 2016 campaign...
One misleading New York Times story. For the Left and their media allies, that’s all it takes for Donald Trump Jr. to become Public Enemy No. 1. The headlines have ranged from the wildly inaccurate (“Trump Jr. Meeting Broke Campaign Finance Laws”) to the downright insane (“Trump Jr.Source: Donald Trump Jr. Faces Nonsensical Attacks...
A watchdog commission appointed by Democrats opted Thursday to lift the limits on donations to officials targeted by recalls — just as a Democratic state senator is facing one.Source: Watchdog panel goes against recommendation to allow larger contributions to Democratic senator facing recall election...
In the wake of last November’s supersized ballot, which sparked the most expensive ballot measure election in California history, the political arena where initiatives are crafted has been in the midst of a summer of stagnation.Source: Political Road Map: There's something missing so far from California's statewide ballot for 2018...
It’s a persistent problem in U.S. politics: many voters don’t have a meaningful impact on elections. This leads to disengaged voters and unaccountable elected officials, mutually reinforcing ills that erode democracy. The rise of partisan gerrymandering has exacerbated the problem.Source: The way out of partisan gerrymandering...
