Charles Kolb encourages measures to promote corporate and union disclosure of political activities in this Huffington Post piece. My preference would be a total ban on all corporate and union political contributions and expenditures. As noted, companies and unions don’t vote, individuals do. In the absence of full public funding of our elections, the only […]
Day: December 29, 2010
Issue committee fined in Colorado
News here. A judge has levied $11,300 in campaign-finance fines against a group run by anti-tax activist Douglas Bruce for not reporting what was spent to put three tax-slashing measures on the November ballot. The fine against Active Citizens Together, a nonprofit run by Bruce, is believed to be the largest-ever against an “issue committee,” […]
Lettermarking and phonemarking
More from the Hill this morning. Watchdogs contacted by The Hill on Tuesday said that so-called “lettermarking” and “phonemarking” could eclipse earmarking as the top concern of groups that monitor government spending.