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Scott Walker signs bills on splitting GAB, campaign finance. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/16/2015)
How did they screw us? Patrick Marley and Jason Stein count the ways.
- Doubles amount donors can give candidates
- Allows corporations, tribes and unions to give up to $12,000 a year to political parties and campaign committees controlled by legislative leaders, e.g., Committee to Elect a Republican Senate, State Senate Democratic Committee
- Allows individual donors to give unlimited donations to parties and committees, money which can then be passed along to individual candidates, subverting the 1st bullet point
- Makes it legal for candidates to work with issue advocacy groups. (We can thank the Wisconsin Supreme Court for opening this door.)
- Ends requirement that donors disclose where they work. (Which will make it hard to follow the money.)
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Preserving clean government in Wisconsin: Call these State Senators! (11/2/2015)
Dear Alberta Darling, Nobody at the Wall Street Journal uncovered anything; it's just a case of an editorial writer making wild, unsubstantiated allegations. (9/17/2015)
Government Accountability Board audit: Republicans trot out press statements they've had in the can for months. (12/16/2014)
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