[EL] The enemies list, then and now

[Lillie Coney]

Favors and public elected officials are very bad ideas. Transparency guards against graft, fraud, waste and abuse--as well the appearance of improper conduct.

The no bid contacts awarded during the Afghanistan and Iraq war should have been competitive or at the least not awarded to companies with ties in the administration.

The jobs that are political appointments should be publicly known.

On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:45 AM, "Sean Parnell" <sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:

> I’m not sure why it would be easier to do a favor than inflict a harm. I’d think an awful lot depends on whether the elected official (and/or their loyal staff) is in the executive branch or the legislative branch (or both, as municipal officials often effectively are), but in some ways it can even be easier to punish your enemies. If you want to reward your friends in building a new prison, you have to steer the contract to one specific person/company, which can be tricky in a competitive bidding process. But if you just want to make sure that one specific company/person doesn’t get the contract, it’s a lot easier to simply write the bid requirements in such a way that your enemy doesn’t even qualify to bid.
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> From: Jeff Hauser [mailto:jeffhauser at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 9:37 AM
> To: Sean Parnell
> Cc: david.l.epstein at gmail.com; JBoppjr at aol.com; law-election at uci.edu
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> I think part of the idea is that it's much easier to do favors for donors than it is to have career staff in the IRS wreck partisan havoc unwarrantedly without engendering real risk of a whistleblower emerging.
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> BTW, I'd like to think all of the people worrying about revenge are big supporters of Grassley and others in the bipartisan community that support plaintiff's lawsuits to encourage whistle-blowing.
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Sean Parnell <sean at impactpolicymanagement.com> wrote:
> Stepping back from the question of whether there is or is not currently any sort of 'enemies list,' I have to say I find it fascinating that the 'reform' community perspective is apparently that elected officials will trip over themselves rushing to satisfy the whims of their $2,500 donors, but couldn't possibly be bothered to take any action against people spending millions to defeat them.
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> Sean Parnell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of David Epstein
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 9:09 AM
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> This is it? Seriously? After reading the column, I see that someone (presumably wealthy) who donated money to Romney has been audited. I also see that an Obama "campaign website" listed some donors along with aspersions on their characters, but (tellingly), there is no link provided to this website. If someone has the link, I'd be happy to follow that too, but my guess is that it wasn't published by the actual Obama campaign.
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> Pretty thin gruel, definitely on the level of internet urban legends rather than actual news.
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:59 AM,  <JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:
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> > Click here: The enemies list, then and now | Power Line
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> >     Interesting story about harassment of contributors triggered by
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> > the Obama campaign.
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> >     Opps, on second thought, don't read, we have been authoritatively
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> > told that this does not happen. Jim Bopp
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