People need to pay attention to this. Dark money just got darker. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
A couple months ago, Speaker Ryan received a $24.6 million contribution for a dark money group from one donor. No one is asking what this anonymous donor got for that $24.6 million, or what they expect to get in the future.
Now we will never know. Spending by organizations that don’t disclose their donors went from about $5 million in 2004 to over $300 million by 2012. In two presidential cycles, the dark money spending in our federal elections increased 6,000 percent.
Now this Administration is making it even HARDER to learn who is doing the spending. If we want the system to work for people, not corporations, we need to stand up to decisions like this.
We did something about it in Montana. Here's a link to my latest Executive Order: governor.mt.gov/Portals/16/doc…. Send it to your elected officials and tell them to do more to #BanDarkMoney
After all, the government belongs to We The People, not We The Dark Money Groups.
