Exelon donates $250,000 to O'Malley group
Brian Witte of the Associated Press notes that Exelon, which is trying to buy Baltimore's Constellation Energy, was the largest single donor in the first half of the year to the O'Malley-led Democratic Governors Association. Exelon spokeswoman Judy Rader says it's to support the DGA's energy symposiums.
Also:
GTECH Corp., which created Maryland's monitoring system for the state's slot machines, donated $100,000 to the DGA.
Exelon and Constellation have also hired O'Malley's brother in law, Max Curran, to push the deal through the Public Service Commission.
Comments
If Ehrlich was governor and leader of the RGA this whole story would be on the front page with in-depth investigative reporting following the money and connections. Rodricks would be apoplectic over "Bobby Haircut"'s corruption. Because it's MOM involved it's relegated to the business section and a blurb of a post on a blog. Nice to be the politician the paper endorsed for the job he holds, I guess..
Posted by: brstevens | August 2, 2011 9:12 AM
You gotta pay to play in the Free State....
Posted by: Jason | August 2, 2011 12:45 PM
Well this sounds ethical.
Posted by: Phillip | August 2, 2011 2:47 PM
With hundreds or thousands of corporate jobs probably being lost at Constellation if this merger is completed, and with the disappearance of another large Baltimore-based corporation, one wonders about all the money changing hands and excessive senior executive pay packages. Wouldn't that money be more productively spent on keeping good local jobs?
Posted by: Joe | August 3, 2011 9:53 AM
Only $250,000? What a deal!
Posted by: Mike Sallese | August 5, 2011 12:44 PM
Ahhhhh.. The smell of Plutocracy in the morning...
Yet another sign that it doesn't matter who you vote FOR when your bank account won't allow you to slip the bean counter a quarter of a million dollars to get the vote counted.
Posted by: Nicole | August 21, 2011 7:20 PM