Rep. Jo Bonner attached his name to an earmark originally requested by Sen. Richard Shelby for $1,372,000 for the City of Mobile’s Transit System, known as the Wave Transit System.
The City of Mobile employed the firm Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom who lobbied on “appropriations issues.” Their employees have contributed $6,500 to Bonner between […]

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Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 in the Transportation, Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill to the “City of Jackson for construction of a building in conjunction with a 240-acre industrial development park.”
I came up empty looking for this one — the City of Jackson employed the Bloom Group (already encountered in this post), but […]

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Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 for the Bay Area Food Bank for construction of a commercial-size kitchen. Bay Area Food Bank, which distributes food donated by grocery stores, restaurants and the like to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, doesn’t have a federal lobbyist, according to the Senate Office of Public Records. To double check, I […]

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I thought this one would be harder.
Rep. Jo Bonner, the newest member of the Appropriations Committee, secured $245,000 for “Atmore road improvement” in the Transportation and Housing & Urban Development Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008. (Sen. Richard Shelby requested the same in the Senate.)
The City of Atmore spent $80,000 on a pair of […]

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Citigroup reportedly is looking to raise additional foreign capital:
Citigroup is putting the final touches to its second big capital-raising effort in as many months, seeking up to $14bn from Chinese, Kuwaiti and public market investors.
Under the proposal being discussed, the bulk of the money – roughly $9bn – would be most likely to come […]

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The New York Times reports that Merrill Lynch and several other big financial firms are seeking foreign investment to offset their losses brought on by their heavy betting on the subprime mortgage market, a development that may be troubling some in Congress:
To shore up its deteriorating finances, Merrill is now in discussions with investors in […]

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The Washington Post’s Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon report on Sen. John McCain’s ties to lobbyists–especially the 32 lobbyists who are designated fundraisers (the preferred term is bundlers, but there are more colorful terms available to us) for his campaign.
The story does a good job of identifying who these lobbyists are and what interests […]

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