Amid calls for resignation after conflict of interest allegations involving Oregon Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber and his fiancée and First Lady Cylvia Hayes, on Friday the state’s longest serving chief executive resigned.
Federal Election Commission Chairman Ann Ravel’s travel documents show she accepted a $160 a day rental car from the California Political Attorney Association (CPAA) while attending to attend a seminar in September.
Oregon Democrats are jumping ship in defending scandal-plagued Gov. John Kitzhaber as calls for his resignation intensify, reports the Associated Press. Influence-peddling allegations and a series of alarming clean energy cronyism allegations surrounding his controversial fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, have Kitzhaber
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, could bag $1 billion in commissions for his company from a government plan to sell 56 US Postal Service buildings.
Bosnia-Herzegovina police raided a popular local newspaper that allegedly had a recording with incriminating language from a politician who heads the left-wing Social Democrats party.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has joined ranks with other progressives like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to blast President Barack Obama’s nomination of Antonio Weiss as the Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance–a big money banker and one of Obama’s top campaign bundlers.
