It looks like there’s a fairly well-organized effort to move The DISCLOSE Act through Congress using a little bit of social media to generate some wind in their sails. DiscloseAct.com is a joint campaign website asking for users to sign an online petition in support of the law. Currently there are about 24,000 names on the petition; it looks like they’ve used Organizing for America and Facebook to spread word about the proposal. Oops, they forgot to grab @DiscloseAct on Twitter. I just did. 😉
Day: May 5, 2010
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DISCLOSE Act Senate/House differences
Sunlight Foundation Blog compared the House and Senate versions of The DISCLOSE Act and the results are here.
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Campaign finance law enforcement in California examined
The LA Times looks at the enforcement practices of the California Fair Political Practices Commission here.In its 2009 annual report, the state Fair Political Practices Commission reveals that it closed 721 cases with findings that ethics rules were violated — more than double the year before. But only one in six violators was fined — a much lower number than the year before. The rest received “warning letters.”