Baucus skips his own fundraiser
Check out our own Paul Blumenthal’s post on the Sunlight Foundation’s blog about how Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) skipped his own fundraiser last weekend. Paul does a great job of showing how Baucus’ leadership PAC, the Glacier PAC, is like a magnet for health care industry contributions. He concludes:
While Sen. Baucus has promised not to accept any more contributions from health care PACs, he is still willing to accept contributions from their lobbyists and executives. It will be interesting to see who showed up at the senator’s big summer weekend getaway, even if the senator didn’t make it there himself.
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Ken Jopp said...
Paul, is there anything, course of action, that a
citizen might do to bring some sort of legal
action against people like Baucas or Tausin ?
They clearly have not acted in the interests of
the public. Any path to redress?
Ken Jopp
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