Newsom’s PAC takes cash from firm promising to win state contracts for clients

Campaign for Democracy, a super PAC founded by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), received $100,000 from a government affairs firm ...

Amid fight with Pillen, state auditor pushes bill to require notification of emergency no-bid contracts

The escalating conflict between Gov. Pillen’s office and State Auditor Mike Foley spilled into a committee hearing on ...
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Why States Must Reevaluate Contracts with Politically Biased Law Firms.

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I served as Treasurer of Ohio, helping to keep the state books balanced, the question of whether states should ever hire outside lawyers came up often and comparatively little ...

Moore campaign accepted, then returned, donations from executive tied to firm seeking state contract

Gov. Wes Moore’s campaign accepted, then returned, contributions from a donor and political ally who co-hosted a fundraiser for Moore while linked to a bidder seeking a large state contract, The ...
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State and Local Contracts Prop Up For-Profit Prisons

This article is published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On an August 7 earnings call, Damon Hininger, the CEO of CoreCivic, announced that the country’s largest private ...