[EL] Campaign rules used to suppress unpopular or minority views

[Daniel Schuman]

What evidence do you have to back up your assertion that secrecy deters
corruption while campaign reporting rules enables and entrenches it?

Daniel

Daniel Schuman
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Jon Roland <jon.roland at constitution.org>wrote:

> **
> An instructive example of how campaign finance and reporting rules can be
> abused to suppress dissent, the unpopular, and minorities can be seen by
> what the FPPC in California did to Californians Against Corruption (CAC)<http://constitution.org/wget/cacdefensefund.org/index.html>.
> They were dinged $800,000 for failing to disclose some donors to a
> successful recall campaign, which they did because some of the other donors
> they disclosed began getting death threats. This case provides all the
> elements of the abuse of campaign finance laws that inevitably prevails.
>
> Campaign rules don't deter corruption. They enable and entrench it.
>
> -- Jon
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