Wisconsin loosens campaign finance rules for 'dark money'
Source: Associated Press
Wisconsin loosens campaign finance rules for 'dark money'
Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
Updated 11:40 am, Saturday, December 19, 2015
Advocates on all sides of the campaign finance debate are watching Wisconsin, where new laws are removing limits on the use and reporting of "dark money" from secret sources. The laws enable coordination between political campaigns and advocacy organizations, something almost all other states forbid.
Wisconsin, like other states, limits how much money individuals can contribute to the campaign committees for political candidates and ballot measures. It also requires campaigns to disclose their contributors. Nonprofit advocacy groups, on the other hand, are usually able to accept unlimited donations, and are not required to report where the money came from, even when it is used to influence elections.
Wisconsin's new laws explicitly allow coordination, as long as the advocacy group doesn't call specifically for the election or defeat of a candidate, or the approval or rejection of a ballot measure. The legislation also replaces a nonpartisan election law enforcement commission with two partisan boards, and stops requiring campaigns to disclose the employers of people who donate more than $100.
GOP majorities in both houses approved the legislation for Gov. Scott Walker's signature after an outside group connected to the billionaire Koch brothers was accused of illegally coordinating with the governor's successful campaign against a recall effort in 2012.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Wisconsin-loosens-campaign-finance-rules-for-6709739.php
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exactly what happens when you have a corrupt court and legislature doing the bidding for a corrupt jerk like Walker and others.
I can't wait until Walker and his little crew decide to have a emergency manager telling what each city can and cannot do on the books, look no further than Snyder in Michigan, and the water issue in Flint Michigan, after selling off the public infrastructure pipeline and going to a polluted source, that had and has lead all based on some appointed non elected crony.
Because in Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Kentucky to name just a few the people there haven't figured it out yet (that there taxes are going to go up to pay for the damage of letting the wealthy get away with the proverbial murder of not paying taxes), that when everything is said and done, these pied pipers who was and currently leading the lemmings over the cliff and getting away with the shenanigans from the corrupt courts, legislature and the governor house is going to come home to roost.
These right wing corrupt hypocrites never look at themselves in the mirror to ask the most important facet about themselves ---------------character.
They have "NEVER" put themselves in the others person shoes---------------------it was always been about themselves, there selfishness's and ego's--------------------and power of greed.
So for all of the people that keep voting in a promise that they are getting the so called government off your back, think again, they are taking away your right to vote, they are hiding the corruption from outside influences, they are gutting your educational system, and they are siphoning off your tax dollars to not maintain the infrastructure, and they are selling your basic commons at a price, which is being broken right before your proverbial noses, that these right wing individuals and systems of right wing governments are going to help you, they are not ----------------------I am helping you, because I and other citizens from afar in other state are subsidizing your states failure in our taxes, and sensible fore site
But you don't see this, and don't see why Walker and others should be impeached or should have gone to jail------------------he was and is corrupt, if he wasn't, they your government and courts would not have broken up the Government Accountability office in your state, a model of non partisan judges to hold corruption and people in government accountable -------------------that is a simple fact-------------------now your bed has been made------------------and it is quite dirty
Honk---------------------------for a political revolution it is about getting a progressive U.S. Supreme Court, Congress and State legislatures
Bernie 2016
