Incoming secretary of state had no role in cutting client's campaign-finance fine, official says

Campaign finance leftovers from 2010 who gave to everybody?
Some campaign contributors  spread their money around in last year’s Elections. Nearly 100 political action committees, corporations and individuals gave at least 50 checks of the maximum-amount to various state office Candidates in Florida for the 2010 election, including 33 contributors who cut more than 100 such checks, according to an Orlando Sentinel review of Campaign Contributions. Almost all of the frequent givers spread the money to both Rep...

Introducing Guest Blogger Michelle Harner
Professor Harner’s current research interests include shareholder and creditor Activism and its impact on corporate value; legislative responses to serial business failures and related implications for discrete industries; and the ethical implications of insolvency for directors, officers and other fiduciaries. In March 2009, she received a research grant from the American Bankruptcy Institute Endowment Fund to study the role of creditors’ committees in chapter 11 business bankruptci...

Hillary Giving Up Secretary Of State?
Is Hillary Clinton about to resign? A growing number of rumors are saying that Hillary Clinton will resign from her position of Secretary of State in the early part of 2011. Clinton was revealed in the Wikileaks Cablegate Scandal as instructing American Diplomats to get Personal Information from United Nations diplomats, which Top Officials at the UN said may be a breach of international laws. A few days later, Clinton soberly told an audience that her position as Secretary of State would be the...

New Years reflection from an electoral activist
Hope everyone is having a wonderful start to their New Year! Tom Cleland of Minnesota Tom Cleland is a Third Party Activist and blogger from Minnesota. He was a volunteer for Green Party Candidate Farheen Hakim for Governor. Tom posted at his blog: Main Lesson of 2010 We forced the Recount! The main lesson of 2010 is that if Democrats ignore Green Party issues, they risk losing Elections. The background of the story is in a longer, previous post, where Tom writes: But my proudest accomplishme...

Jessica Levinson: Recalling Schwarzenegger's Tenure as Governor
Like it or not, the Governator will not "be back." We've had a long run with him, seven years. The Economy is now, undeniably, in the tank. Questions continue to linger as to whether California is governable. Answers are many, but real solutions too often seem few and far between. So behind all the rhetorical noise, it is worth asking, how did the Governator do and what does his tenure mean for the future of California? To answer those questions, let's take a look at a few key issues: Budget...

Supreme Court Okays Using Public Schools for Political Fundraising
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled this week in a 4-3 decision that School Districts may administer Payroll deductions from employees for the benefit of the Michigan Education Association’s political action committee. This overturned a Court of Appeals decision. The MEA has in its union contracts throughout the state provisions that require districts to collect Payroll deduction for the union's political action committee. The union asserts that it pays the districts for any related administ...

State representative wants a law that would stop Kwame Kilpatrick's use of his campaign funds to pay his defense lawyers
On the heels of a Free Press story about former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's use of campaign funds to pay his lawyers, Rep. Marty Knollenberg, a Troy Republican, said his aim is to prevent more politicians from using campaign money to defend themselves against Criminal Charges. Kilpatrick used more than $976,000 from his re-election account to pay lawyers who defended him against criminal charges stemming from the 2008 Text Message Scandal. "Once a...

Womens rights steadily eroding in Iraq as Islamic supremacists gain power
Sharia descends upon what had been a largely Secular nation. Isn't it great that Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange made Oklahoma safe for Sharia? "2011 looks grim for progress on women's rights in Iraq," by Shashank Bengali and Sahar Issa for McClatchy Newspapers, December 31: Baghdad -- When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki introduced what he called a national partnership government two weeks ago, he included allies and adversaries, Arabs and Kurds, Shiite Muslims and Sunnis. One group, however...

Failed Secretary of State Candidate Wants To Take Right To Vote Away for Animal Cruelty
More proof that Corey Mock doesn’t have the judgement God gave a dog. All he’s trying to do is to raise his profile so that he doesn’t ever have to work in a real job. Spurred by recent high-profile incidents of Animal Cruelty and criticism from national animal Advocacy Groups, a Grand Forks legislator[Corey Mock] and state prosecutors are drafting Legislation that could give North Dakota its first felony penalties for “egregious” animal cruelty. It doesn’t s...

Abortion providers work to stop free ultrasounds that educate moms
According to a recent report, Abortion providers in Rockford, Illinois are actively working to stop a mobile sonogram unit offering free sonograms from educating moms about their unborn Children. According to local prayer counselor Kevin Rilott, those staffing a motor home based sonogram unit have been confronted by Abortion providers about not parking near their facility. Likewise, the Rockford police have selectively told the van Staffers to remove the van from the city. After the initial conf...

Massachusetts Clean Energy Plan - Taxes will go up
Yesterday the “Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020” was released by the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Ian A. Bowles. The section which raises the most questions to us is the “Clean Car Consumer Incentives” on page 59 of the report.  The report recommends two new policies, one is adding a new tax on vehicles, the least efficient vehicles would pay more tax than the more efficient vehicles. The second new policy is a “Pay as you ...

Why U.S. Auto Sales Should Speed Up in 2011
While the overall health of The Economy in 2011 remains hard to diagnose at the close of 2010, at least one part of The Economy seems likely to receive a shot in the arm: Car Sales. Predictions for next year range from 12.5 million to 14 million, which would signal a boost of at least 10% over this year's anemic numbers. "There are a lot of people out there who have held off on buying a new car for the last three years," says Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at auto website Edmunds.com, who foreca...

RNC Candidate Priebuss Law Firm Says Health Reform Is Constitutional, Touts Benefits Of Reform
On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to select the next national chairman of the party. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is running for a Second Term against a number of challengers, including Saul Anuzis, Ann Wagner, Maria Cino, Gentry Collins, and Reince Priebus. Priebus, the current state chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is positioning himself as the true conservative alternative to Steele. His announcement video contained mi...

Good Grief Leading RNC Candidates Law Firm Supports Obamacare Says Its Constitutional
This will go over well with the conservative base. The leading Candidate in the race - Reince Priebus ‘s Law Firm supports ObamaCare and says its constitutional! Yes, you read that correctly. Reince Priebus’s Law Firm supports ObamaCare and says its constitutional. Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, is seen here with RNC Chairman Michael Steele. (News One) On January 14, 168 standing members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) will hold an election to selec...

Two candidates interviewed for Ogdensburg judge post
Two Candidates for the upcoming Ogdensburg special city judge opening have been interviewed and a number of others have expressed an interest in the job. Mayor William D. Nelson, who will make the appointment, said Wednesday, however, that he won't select anyone until mid-January. On Saturday, William R. Small, the current special city judge, will be sworn in as city judge. Mr. Small will succeed Judge George E. Silver, who will retire Friday. His Retirement will cap a 35-year tenure as ci...

Leading RNC Candidates Law Firm Supports Obamacare: Says Its Constitutional
This ought to go over well with the Conservative Base… If you thought the fact that RNC Chair Candidate, Maria Cino , was an ObamaCare Lobbyist was outrageous wait until you hear the latest… The leading candidate in the race - Reince Priebus ’s Law Firm supports ObamaCare and says its constitutional! Yes, you read that correctly. Reince Priebus’s Law Firm supports ObamaCare and says its constitutional. Unbelievable. The Far Left Think Progress website reported t...

Kool Aid & Arsenic: Its getting harder to tell the good guys from the bad guys
I hate Washington, DC. Despite the few friends that I have who live and work around DC, I’ve found my view of that city growing from a genuine dislike to a visceral hatred. Perhaps I’m an idealist but, to me, DC is the home of snake-oil salesmen, Prostitutes, and power-hungry pikers. It’s worse than a den of iniquity. It is iniquity. Freedom, to much of the DC crowd, is a quaint euphemism that those who cling to their guns or religion take far too seriously. You are the subj...

Sick 9/11 workers told to avoid predatory lawyers
Ground Zero responders are being warned to stay away from personal injury lawyers trying to cash in on the recently passed 9/11 Zadroga health bill. Sick workers have been bombarded by lawyers with letters and calls since Christmas urging them to sign up - or risk missing out. "Everybody should stand fast," said John Feal, head of the FealGood Foundation, which lobbied hard for the $4.3 billion James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, passed by Congress last week. Lawyers are eligible t...

Leading RNC Candidate's Law Firm Supports Obamacare -- Says It's Constitutional
« Cloward-Piven and the manufactured crisis ... back again? Surely, this is a joke, right? Unfortunately, it's for real. Clearly, this isn't the guy who needs to be leading the RNC for the next two years. After all, Steele was bad enough ... why take a step backward. Meanwhile, the Left is loving this. Cloward-Piven and the manufactured crisis ... back again?...

Lingerie Football League Players Pose for New PETA Poster
They may toss the pigskin, but they will not wear fur. That's the message six members of the Chicago Bliss want to send by posing in PETA's latest poster. Wide Receiver Nadia Larysa (Far Left) told FOX411.com that "our games sell out usually to around 7,000 fans in our stadium, and we have millions of viewers who watch the games live on MTV2, so we figured our image is powerful enough to make and impact and influence people to make the right choice when buying their next winter coat." You must l...

LeMieux Returns to Law Firm; Nelson Raising Money
Still think Sen. George Lemieux is among the likeliest contenders to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012? We’re not so sure. Not a Subscriber? To continue reading, sign up for a free trial. Women Saying ‘No’ to Palin? Women Saying ‘No’ to Palin? A woman plays the role of Uncle Sam during the Carnivoil rally July 27 on Capitol Hill. The Clean Energy Works rally, which was billed as “The Greatest Mess on Earth,” was aimed at BP and its handling of a months-long...

Beat the Heat: Call a Cab
If you are headed out tonight to celebrate, plan ahead. The cops will be everywhere. In Denver, if money's an issue, the Frank Sawaya Law Firm will pick up the tab for your taxi. Just send your receipt with a photocopy of your driver's license to: Holiday Free Cab Ride Home Program, The Sawaya Law Firm, 1600 Ogden St., Denver, CO 80218. Sawaya says his offer, now in its 4th year, is offered on New Years Eve, July 4th, St. Patricks Day and Halloween. It costs the firm about $20,000. a ...

White House Announces New Round of Recess Appointments
WASHINGTON - President Obama announced today his intent to recess appoint six nominees to fill key administration posts that have been left vacant for an extended period of time. William J. Boarman is President of the Printing, Publishing & Media Workers Sector of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and the Senior Vice President of CWA. Mr. Boarman has been associated with the printing industry, its labor relations and personnel management for over 40 years starting with his f...

O'Donnell Denies Misuse of Campaign Money
(Baltimore) — Failed U.S. Senate Candidate Christine O'Donnell denied Thursday that she had inappropriately used any campaign funds, defending herself a day after the disclosure of a Criminal Investigation into her spending. The Delaware Republican appeared on several network morning shows after it was revealed that federal authorities have launched the Probe to determine whether she broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses. (See more on Christine O'Donnell.) "There...

Media Bias & Thug Tactics Against Christine O'Donnell
The liberal's war against Christine O'Donnell is far from over. Stories appeared yesterday saying her Campaign Finances were being investigated by the Feds, after a complaint was filed by the George Soro$ funded CREW (Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington). It doesn't help that one of her former campaign workers making these accusations was fired for being a no-show for her job. O'Donnell called the accusations "thug tactics," and expanded on the allegations in a message which ...