Laws Preventing Dark Money Disclosure Are Sweeping the Nation

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Citizens for Ethics
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In four states, laws were adopted this year that bar government agencies from requiring nonprofit organizations to report their donors, essentially codifying the campaign finance loopholes that have allowed for an explosion of “dark money” in politics.

Laws Preventing Dark Money Disclosure Are Sweeping the Nation
ALEC-inspired bills making dark money disclosure illegal are passing more states each year.
readsludge.com
10:00 AM · Jun 17, 2021

https://readsludge.com/2021/06/15/new-laws-preventing-dark-money-disclosure-are-sweeping-the-nation/

As legislative sessions wind down in many states, political groups that don’t want to disclose their funders have a lot to celebrate.

In four states, laws were adopted this year that bar government agencies from requiring nonprofit organizations to report their donors, essentially codifying the campaign finance loopholes that have allowed for an explosion of “dark money” in politics.

The laws’ supporters claim they are needed to prevent governments from violating the privacy of charitable donors, but each of the bills are worded so that they would also apply to other types of 501(c) nonprofits that, unlike 501(c)(3) charities, are allowed to spend money on politics. Money from nonprofits such as labor unions, trade associations, and social welfare groups is increasingly being spent on politics in many states.

The bills create preemptive protections against state and local agencies that could seek to require nonprofits that spend money to influence their elections to reveal their donors in order to give voters information about the political messages they are seeing.

“These bills are about making dark money darker,” said Aaron McKean, legal counsel at the nonpartisan, nonprofit Campaign Legal Center. “These aren’t churches or the Salvation Army, these are politically-active nonprofits that are spending money in elections, or spending money lobbying for changes in the law, or trying to change public opinion, but they don’t want to have to disclose their donors.”

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[empedocles]

1. States in 2021 are Arkansas, Iowa, S. Dakota, Tennessee

[Midnight Writer]

3. Thank you. Should have been at top of article.

News "style" these days baffle me.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Because thier donors

Are rich psychopaths wanting laws to be made custom to thier greed and protect thier criminality.

[uponit7771]

4. +1