Posted on 11/26/2015 8:59:41 AM PST by Theoria
Mitch McConnell plans to slip campaign cash rider in omnibus spending bill.
Senate Republicans plan to insert a provision into a must-pass government funding bill that would vastly expand the amount of cash that political parties could spend on candidates, multiple sources tell POLITICO.
The provision, which sources say is one of a few campaign-finance related riders being discussed in closed-door negotiations over a $1.15 trillion omnibus spending package, would eliminate caps on the amount of cash that parties may spend in coordination with their candidates.
Pushed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime foe of campaign finance restrictions, the coordination rider represents the latest threat to the increasingly rickety set of rules created to restrict political fundraising and spending on elections.
Campaign finance watchdogs argue that it would allow wealthy donors to exercise even more influence with members of Congress. And they cried foul over the possibility that the provision could be slipped into the omnibus spending bill that Congress is working to pass before a Dec. 11 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
Other campaign-finance provisions being discussed during the omnibus negotiations include GOP-backed efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission from enacting additional regulations and disclosure requirements on politically active nonprofit groups, sources say.
Proponents of the coordination rider cast it as a step toward a more accountable and transparent system of political financing.
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Can’t sneak anything in to defund Planned Parenthood nor Obamacare but piece of cake if it gives the GOPe more money to spend on RINOs.
Could be a way for The Cheap Labor Express to finally crush the tea party.
Mitch said that’s what he was going to do.
Yeah, pretty clear that the extra cash would go to knock out Trump, and defeat conservatives.
Bastards!
People of Kentucky, please remove this POS.
It might not be so bad if that money
didn’t go into the pockets of a leftist media.
Party spending, by definition, cannot help or hinder individual candidates for the nomination.
We can hope. But the problem is corrupt leaders corrupt their voters and vice versa.
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