Opinion ID: 829406
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Heading: expenditure

Text: We first examine whether a public school’s administration of a payroll deduction system that remits funds to the MEA-PAC is an impermissible expenditure under § 57. “Expenditure” is specifically defined by the MCFA, so this definition controls for purposes of applying § 57. The general definition of “expenditure” under the MCFA is set forth in § 6, which provides in pertinent part: (1) “Expenditure” means a payment, donation, loan, or promise of payment of money or anything of ascertainable monetary value for goods, materials, services, or facilities in assistance of, or in opposition to, the nomination or election of a candidate, or the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question. Expenditure includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: (a) A contribution or a transfer of anything of ascertainable monetary value for purposes of influencing the nomination or election of a candidate or the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question.