[EL] question on state 'pay to play' regulations

[Sean Parnell]

Democracy 21 has a letter
<http://democracy21.org/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC=%7b91FCB139-CC82-4DDD-AE4E-3
A81E6427C7F%7d&DE=%7b91E06F0F-B5A0-474B-BF46-FC964508F343%7d>  today
challenging Senator Susan Collins and statements she made in a Washington
Post op-ed the other day. One item in particular, referencing an earlier
letter sent to the Obama administration, caught my eye:

 

In response to numerous contracting scandals, more than a dozen states have
imposed specific campaign finance disclosure requirements on government
contractors.

 

I think I recall a similar statement being made by Trevor Potter and Craig
Holman in the last week or so.

 

I'm of course familiar with several states having banned contributions by
government contractors, including Connecticut and New Jersey, but I'm not
specifically aware of any state laws that require the executives and
directors of a company along with the company itself that is a government
contractor to reveal their donations and member dues to trade and
professional associations and social welfare organizations if those groups
engage in even a small amount of election-related speech along with their
other, non-political major-purpose activities (I'm assuming that the
proposed Obama executive order would be applied in a manner similar to that
proposed in the DISCLOSE Act, whereby if a group engages in any
election-related speech at all then all donations, dues
payments/assessments, and other revenues are automatically assumed to be for
the purpose of funding that speech).

 

Can someone tell me which states are among the dozen that have this type of
disclosure requirements imposed on government contractors? Thanks.

 

 

Sean Parnell

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