The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The bill would ban most committee-to-committee transfers of campaign donations, an attempt to reduce the “money laundering” that lawmakers have alleged goes on. Under the bill, political action committees could give only to candidates, instead of to other committees. Also, the bill would give the Missouri Ethics Commission new authority […]
Month: February 2010
R. Allen Stanford’s estate seeks political contributions back
The Post has a fololw-up to a Peter Overby report I noted yesterday on R. Allen Stanford’s estate’s lawsuit to get political contributions returned. The lawsuit argues that since campaign contributions are essentially gifts — and were not given in return for goods and services — there is nothing barring the parties from returning the […]
The money pots: governor’s associations
The Republican and Democratic governors’ associations are the topic of this Times report. Operating outside the laws that block federal candidates and party committees from taking money from unions or businesses, the Democratic governors’ group — and its Republican counterpart — are case studies in corporate political fund-raising. The two associations brought in a total […]