The Cato Institute's David Boaz highlights a Washington Post article about how the former governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley, who is now running for president as a Democrat, earned $147,812 in speaking fees from "Environmental Systems Research Institute, a company that makes mapping software that O'Malley heavily employed as governor as part of an initiative to use data and technology to guide policy decisions."
One ESRI contract with the state of Maryland was worth as much as $3,702,000.
Link via Walter Olson.