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Another Chilling Step in Campaign Finance Disclosure - Legal Perspectives
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 Stephen Klein
It’s unseasonably cold today in Cheyenne and across Wyoming. The weather reports say it’s 80 degrees and partly cloudy in Washington, DC, but this morning a chilling breeze blew across Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee hosted a hearing on “Current Issues in Campaign Finance Law Enforcement,” basically giving Senator Whitehouse the chance to lament that people are engaging in politics, and that politics is a dirty business. Borrowing from the prosecution of Tom DeLay in Texas, Sen. Whitehouse considers it “money laundering” to carefully comply with FEC and IRS regulations that prevent disclosure of speakers’ names. Naturally, we can probably expect another push for more campaign finance laws like the DISCLOSE Act in the coming months.
Like other state and federal agencies, Washington has passed burdensome disclosure regulations, but the pesky legal challenges keep coming, opening up big speech “loopholes” that lead to more hearings in our nation’s capitol on the political speech problem. Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission has taken a big step for the campaign finance reformers by moving to shut attorneys up as effectively as they have grassroots groups. I expect IJ and RDW will eventually be vindicated, but that any agency would engage in this kind of villainy in the first place is yet further proof that those charged with “cleaning up” politics make it far dirtier and oppressive than it would be without campaign finance laws. Tweet
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