With the blog post below, TWI is delighted to welcome its newest reporter — Laura McGann. Well, sort of new, since she is the managing editor of this site and already vital to its workings. But she missed writing — and certainly has a knack for it, as we all saw with her stellar work on TPMmuckraker. So she has decided to walk the beat of money in politics — as if she already didn’t have enough to keep her occupied and off the street.