N.J. special interests spend record high $105M to sway politicians as legal weed, health insurance laws pass
Despite the coronavirus pandemic disrupting the economy, lobbying spending still went up.
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Despite the coronavirus pandemic disrupting the economy, lobbying spending still went up.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lobbyists spent a record amount of money trying to influence New...
County political party committees in 2020 reported their second smallest fund-raising haul in a dozen years, collecting just $6.9 million.
An agency's analysis shows pay-to-play laws work, according to a new report. This is partly why public contractors are donating less to campaigns.
Trenton Bureau A leading Republican candidate for governor, well-connected lawyer and longtime power player in Warren County politics, Doug Steinhardt, and people close to him have bypassed state pay-to-play laws while winning more than $10 million in government contracts in the past decade. The small group of donors, which includes Steinhardt's replacement as chairman of the state Republican Party, contributed more than half of the $250,000 total raised by the independent group Leadership PAC for Better Government since it formed in 2011, according to an analysis of campaign finance reco...