| Subject: news of the day 5/27/04 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 5/27/2004, 6:41 AM |
| To: election-law |
The Center for Responsive Politics has issued this interesting
press release, which notes:
These groups must identify the name and address of contributors of $200 or more and recipients of $500 or more. If the donor or recipient is a person, the group is supposed to list the employer and occupation of that individual.
However, section 527(j) of the tax code, as amended in 2000, allows groups to omit disclosure information as long as they pay a tax on the amount not disclosed. 527 groups do not pay taxes on income that is properly disclosed.
The Arizona Daily Sun offers this
report.
The Miami Herald offers this
report,
with the following subhead: "Political committees operated by
legislators or special-interest groups are required under a new Florida
law to disclose their contributors."
The New York Times article is here.
The Washington Post is here.
Among other things, the Times article notes:
The Democratic National Committee has long been gearing up to counteract Mr. Bush's advantage. Mr. Kerry moved several top members of his financial team into the organization this year, who have since been starting new programs and recruiting donors and fund-raisers to increase the party's collections.
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