In light of recent reports, Utah may change its laws regarding the use of campaign funds. More than a dozen legislators signed a pledge Wednesday, vowing to support ethics legislation next session that would strengthen lawmakers’ disclosure requirements and prohibit using campaign contributions for things like clothes and car repairs.
Author: Eric Brown
Use of Campaign Funds in Massachusetts
What’s a proper use of campaign funds? That’s the topic of this Massachusetts enforcement case. House Majority Leader John H. Rogers will pay $30,000 to the state to settle findings that he paid tens of thousands of dollars from his campaign account to a friend and political adviser, who in turn used the funds to […]
Campaign Money Watch
Here’s news about an interesting 527. The ads are being paid for with large, unregulated contributions from Democrat-affiliated donors, which puts the group in a position that might seem at odds with longtime reform efforts to restrict the use of unregulated money, or so-called “soft money,” in political campaigns.