Lobbying Is Corruption(carette.xyz)
336 points by LucidLynx | 157 comments
A personal blog post arguing that lobbying in the US amounts to corruption, responding to a George Hotz piece explaining lobbying to non-Americans.
#campaign-finance on Hacker News
3 stories tagged campaign-finance, newest first.
Lobbying(geohot.github.io)
134 points by smilelamp | 40 comments
A satirical blog post by George Hotz explaining American lobbying and campaign contributions as thinly disguised bribery.
French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence(bbc.com)
325 points by begueradj | 441 comments
BBC News article reporting that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has begun serving a jail sentence for criminal conspiracy over campaign financing.