Ballot Access News covers a recent opinion on Utah’s campaign finance rules. The decision says that these disclosure requirements can only be applied to groups whose major purpose is to influence elections. The plaintiff organization is quite old, and has always existed to assist individual union members when a union member has a dispute with […]
Day: September 16, 2008
Building Industry Association of Washington
The Building Industry Association of Washington is facing a Washington Public Disclosure finding that the group violated campaign finance law. A subsidiary of the Building Industry Association of Washington violated state campaign-finance laws, the state Public Disclosure Commission has ruled. The commission will pass its findings on to the state Attorney General’s Office, which will […]
SEIU, Planned Parenthood
NPR’s “Secret Money Project” reports on SEIU and Planned Parenthood ads “against McCain.” That’s $2 million in “secret money.” The McCain-Palin ticket advances. Obama-Biden starts slipping. Enter Obama’s outside helpers…