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Campaign Finance Reform

1/18/2016

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Campaign finance reform is urgently needed. Not only is BIG money flooding our state, but much of it is DARK money: we don't know who is paying. I have introduced a campaign disclosure bill to address this.

But we will also approach this another way: our state constitution says "the legislature shall provide for disclosure..." We can add onto these words through a constitutional amendment in order to bring that intent up to date after Citizens United opened the floodgates.

The Supreme Court ruled that money was “speech” but also said that states can (and must) regulate the disclosure of who is paying. We in Minnesota need full disclosure of who is behind the electioneering in order to make good choices. With a constitutional amendment, we let the people decide!
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    Carolyn Laine, Minnesota House of Representatives,
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