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March 09, 2006
Tennessee Among States with "Most-Revised" Lobbying Rules
The Center for Public Integrity has published a report on lobbying reforms in the states. The driving point of the article is that the state-level reforms enacted thus far (since 2003) outpace federal reforms by a significant margin.
The Volunteer State gets mentioned quite a bit, as you can imagine, since the General Assembly tackled ethics issues earlier this year after several of its members were arrested last May (and one has since pleaded guilty).
The piece is co-authored by Leah Rush, who, if you'll recall, was in Chattanooga last August as a guest panelist for the Citizens Advisory Group on Ethics Reform. Go read it.
My favorite bit:
Ironically, as reported by the Nashville Tennessean, lobbyists came out of the woodwork during the special session to offer campaign donations, along with their thoughts on the reform law.The special session started on the same date as any year's regular session would have, but while state law prohibited lobbyists from making donations to legislators during the regular session, there was no prohibition during special sessions.
Government | By joe lance | 03:02 PM