Rochelle "Shelley" Berkley is an American businesswoman,politician and attorney who served as U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st congressional district from 1999 to 2013. In 2012,she was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 is the primary United States federal law regulating political campaign fundraising and spending. The law originally focused on creating limits for campaign spending on communication media,adding additional penalties to the criminal code for election law violations,and imposing disclosure requirements for federal political campaigns. The Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on February 7,1972.
The Hatch Act of 1939,An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities,is a United States federal law. Its main provision prohibits civil service employees in the executive branch of the federal government,except the president and vice president,from engaging in some forms of political activity. It became law on August 2,1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. It was most recently amended in 2012.
Cheryl Ann Jacques is an American politician and attorney who served six terms in the Massachusetts Senate,was the president of the Human Rights Campaign for 11 months,and served as an administrative judge in the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents.
Samuel Bruce Graves Jr. is an American politician serving as the United States representative for Missouri's 6th congressional district,serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches across most of the northern third of the state,from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. The bulk of its population lives in the northern part of the Kansas City area,including the northern fourth of Kansas City. Graves is the dean of Missouri's House delegation.
Claire Conner McCaskill is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019 and as State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007.
George D. Maziarz is a Republican politician from New York State. From 1995 to 2015,Maziarz represented the 62nd District in the New York State Senate,which included all of Niagara County,all of Orleans County,and the towns of Sweden and Ogden in Monroe County. In March 2018,Maziarz pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor to avoid trial on five felony charges arising out of the alleged filing of false campaign finance reports.
Annazette Collins is an American politician. She was a member of the Illinois State Senate from 2011 to 2013,representing the 5th district. She previously was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives,representing the 10th district from 2001 to 2011. During the 2012 Democratic Party primary election,Collins lost to Patricia Van Pelt Watkins. Collins received 46.4 percent of the vote.
Vernon Gale Buchanan is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 16th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party,he first entered Congress in 2007,representing Florida's 13th congressional district until redistricting. His district is anchored by Bradenton.
The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. It strengthens public disclosure requirements concerning lobbying activity and funding,places more restrictions on gifts for members of Congress and their staff,and provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills. The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 14,2007.
Joseph A. Montalbano is an Associate Justice on the Rhode Island Superior Court.
Dianne Wilkerson is a former Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate,representing the 2nd Suffolk District from 1993 to 2008.
Lance Kinzer is an American politician served as the Kansas State Representative for the 30th district from 2013 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he previously represented the 14th district from 2004 until redistricting.
Mark A. Darr is an American politician from Springdale,Arkansas,who was his state's 19th lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2014. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected in 2010 to succeed Democrat Bill Halter. To win the second-ranking post in state government,he defeated another Democrat,state Senator and former House Speaker Shane Broadway by a margin of 51 to 49 percent.
Kent Sorenson is a former Iowa state legislator who resigned after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and other felonies related to campaign finances.
Ann Elizabeth Kitchen is the District 5 City Council member for Austin,Texas,and a former member of the Texas House of Representatives. She is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Jamilah Nasheed is an American politician from the state of Missouri. Nasheed formerly represented the fifth district in the Missouri Senate,and formerly served in the Missouri House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
William Burton Jones is an American politician and businessman who is the lieutenant governor-elect of Georgia. A member of the Republican Party,he has been a member of the Georgia State Senate elected from the 25th district since January 2013. He was involved with the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
Campaign for Accountability (CfA) is a liberal 501(c)(3) non-profit ethics watchdog group headquartered in Washington,D.C. CfA was co-founded in May 2015 by Anne Weismann,former legal counsel for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW),and Louis Mayberg,former chairman of CREW. CfA group states that it "uses research,litigation and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life."
