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Why lobbyist’s gifts to legislators are so rarely reported and so difficult to track

July 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Ethics, Politics, lobbyists

Another review of expenditure reports filed by lobbyists and the businesses and organizations that employ them confirmed what I initially noted two weeks ago–money spent on the gifts given to public officials by lobbyists are rarely publicly disclosed, despite the requirements of state law. This time I looked at reports filed by individual lobbyists, as [...]

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