Larry Noble
Larry Noble
Larry L. Noble is the most recent Iowa State Senator from the 35th District. He served in the Iowa Senate from 2007 until his resignation on December 17, 2010 to become Commissioner of the Iowa Department of Public Safety. He earned his BA in Criminal Justice Administration from Central Missouri State Universityin 1973...
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Indian tribes have become a political force, and they have to be looked at that way with regard to political contributions.
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One of the things people who are running for president try to do is keep their fundraising staff and political people close at hand. And one of the ways you can do that is by putting them in some sort of organization you run.
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... They're connected because often the political contributions open the door that allow the lobbyist in. The check by itself doesn't have written on it the agenda. It's the lobbyist that follows those contributions that brings the agenda.
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If the justices uphold the law, it could mean a major change in how political parties operate,
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There is a fine line between a political contribution and a bribe, but that fine line is the difference between returning to Congress and going to jail.
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I think they felt the way that many high-tech companies felt: that what happened in Washington didn't affect them and that they were outside the political realm.
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The idea of 'cronies' has been around for a long time, ... Every president that comes in has a lot of political appointees that they can bring in with them.
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That is very unusual because, in effect, if you freeze or seize the account, you're stopping the campaign and most prosecutors won't do that without very good cause.
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It's been growing in recent years as lobbyists have been closer and closer to campaigns.
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That's a major fight. It brings in a lot of the national security issues that the administration has been hammering. This is all the things they've been using as hot-button issues to motivate the base. But they've got a problem now.
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They can speak at an event, and as long as the disclaimer is there, it seems like he (McCain) is following the law.
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Criminally, I don't know if you can hold the campaign liable. But civilly, if you can show the campaign had reckless disregard for the law, you could go after them for that.
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Criminally, I don't know if you can hold the campaign liable, ... But civilly, if you can show the campaign had reckless disregard for the law, you could go after them for that.
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You have to worry that allowing such income, especially when it is so closely associated with Pombo politically, is a reward.