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This coming Saturday the Nevada Center for Public Ethics will hold a Town Hall Meeting on "Ethics Legislation 2007": Where: Flamingo Library’s theater, located one block east of Maryland Parkway Craig Walton, Chief Poobah of the NCPE, appears on KNPR’s State of Nevada today. Center [...] I finally got around to having a good look at Congressman and Governor wannabe Jim Gibbons’ campaign report. And there’s a whole lot of bundling going on. Bundling is when a donor contributes more than the legal limit to a campaign by channeling the donations through several sources, like several different corporate sources. The legal limit is $10,000 per campaign, $5,000 for the primary and $5,000 for the general election. Here’s some examples from the latest Gib-report (searchable version–big!): page 10: Gibbons has presumably released his finance disclosure statements early. But apparently they have only been distributed to certain members of the MSM and don’t appear on the Secretary of State’s site yet, giving new meaning to the word "disclosure." According to the RGJ, Gibbons is getting $5000 from Lance Gilman who runs a couple of brothels. That [...] It’s a start–Titus’ "12 Step" program to reform campaign finance in Nevada. I especially like the idea of a searchable database for Nevada campaign contributions. In fact, I’ve advocated it before. I’ve also supported the idea for quarterly reports because the current law allows campaigns to hide squirrelly tricks like "bundling" contributions–where individuals subvert limits by [...] The Las Vegas Sun had an interesting story about how messed up the campaign finance laws are in Nevada. As an example, the story noted the Gibbons received $10,000 from a mysterious organization called "Arcadia Living Trust A." Turns out the Living Trust is run by one Paul Morabito. The Gibbons campaign directed questions to Paul Morabito, the [...] I agree whole heartedly with Jon Ralston’s column in the LVSun today. He wrote that the State of Nevada has to stop fat cats from circumventing campaign contribution limits by "bundling." Fat Cats "bundle" their contributions by using several corporate funds to spread out their contributions. In Nevada, an individual can give a max of $5K to [...] Apparently the big corporations pumping money into the Gibbons’ campaign are so rich they don’t pay attention to where their money goes. According to the Reno Gazette Journal, Corporate givers such as Bechtel, The National Mining Association, and Cerberus Capitol Capital Management stuffed money into Gibbons’ congressional reelection fund even after he’d decided not to run for [...] Thank heavens for Nevada Congresspeople! Otherwise, huge corporate interests would have to start acting like responsible citizens and stop trying to kill us! Congressfolk Jim Gibbons, Jon Porter, and sometime (less and less often, in fact) Democrat Shelley Berkley voted to keep victims of gun violence from suing gun makers and sellers. And without hardly stopping for [...] Got a devastated city on your hands? Need a hand rebuilding after a disaster? Not a problem! We, the members of the State of Nevada’s Congressional Delegation, have the solution! Subsidies, my friend. Yes indeedy, that’s what you need to get you on your feet! Federal, tax-payer financed subsidies. But not just any old subsidies to construction or [...] On August 10th, soon to be ex Congressman Gibbons can be seen stuffing his pockets at a meeting of the Nevada Restaurant Association. It’ll cost you $35 bucks for the privilege of looking at him–and watching him stuff his pockets with cash. This from the Las Vegas Business Press: The Nevada Restaurant Association |
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