Sentences with phrase «dark money donors»

Promoting the «free speech» rights of dark money donors is another partisan political endeavor.

As billionaires, like Richard Mercer and Charles and David Koch, come under fire for heavily influencing campaigns and elections with undisclosed dark money, ALEC has a new «Center to Protect Free Speech» and a model bill that would allow dark money donors to keep their funders a secret.

DeVos Family Foundation, Alliance for School Choice, American Federation for Children, Stand for Children, All Children Matter, Children's Scholarship Fund, Major Dark Money Donor

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Most of this «dark money» flows through tax - exempt non-profit organizations that aren't required to disclose their donors.

One of the most talked - about «dark money» groups of the election released its tax returns yesterday, showing it raised almost $ 77 million from fewer than 100 donors over 19 months.

Worse still, they're bankrolled by dark money — we've exposed the shady group behind their lavish pro-Brexit campaigning, but they're still refusing to name their secret donors.

Last week, I reported on an obscure yet powerful group called Donors Trust, a dark - money ATM funding the conservative movement with hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly anonymous money.

The term «dark money» is often applied to this category of political spender because these groups do not have to disclose the sources of their funding — though a minority do disclose some or all of their donors, by choice or in response to specific circumstances.

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

The California Assembly passed a bill from a Bay Area lawmaker that supporters, including the League of Women Voters, say will shine a light on «dark money» in politics, requiring that top donors be listed on campaign ads.

One of the lovely quirks of our political finance system is the role of «dark money» spent by organizations that DO N'T have to disclose their donors.

The measure is intended to reduce the flow of anonymous contributions, or «dark money,» flowing from donors through 501c (4) charitable groups in support of political campaigns.

Easing political activity rules for churches also raises questions about whether churches could be pulled into the campaign finance sphere and effectively become «dark money» committees that play partisan politics without disclosing donors.

«What was happening all around the country was these dark - money groups whose donors are hidden started to spend money on state legislative races,» Bloss said.

Her Clinton flip - flop follows other hypocritical positions such as taking contributions from a known «dark money» group — whose donors are anonymous — and soliciting money from Super PAC mega-donors such as billionaire George Soros.

A Jonathan Harris - for - governor email appeal said that his campaign is not being funded by «dark money or shady donors.»

The candidate has also been vocal in denouncing «dark money,» or the campaign donations given to LLCs and non-profits which are then able to spend money on races without disclosing their donors.

However, under pressure from activists after openDemocracy revealed how Brexit campaigners were funnelling dark money through Northern Ireland to fund «Take Back Control» adverts, the Democratic Unionist Party was forced last night to reveal its major donor to be a group calling itself the Constitutional Research Council.

Such organizations have earned the moniker «dark money» groups because they can typically shield the names of donors from the public.

We exposed the shadowy links of the donor group that gave DUP that «dark money» during the Brexit campaign.

Both organizations are conservative dark money funnels that advertise their ability to transfer huge sums to conservative groups without donor disclosure.

Donors Trust: Donor capital funds dark money, Koch, Bradley, DeVos, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos

Over 85 % of this money came from outside of MA and most of it as «dark money,» with its original donors left undisclosed.

An incredible 95 percent of the money that flowed into the Massachusetts charter school campaign came from out - of - state donors, with 84 percent of the total funds coming from New York based Families for Excellent Schools, a dark money charter school group that advocates in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Of the total amount of money Charters Care raised, the majority came from Education Reform Now, a shadowy New York based «Dark Money» group that refuses to identify its domoney Charters Care raised, the majority came from Education Reform Now, a shadowy New York based «Dark Money» group that refuses to identify its doMoney» group that refuses to identify its donors.

The article centers around the Hedge Clippers outing donors who they claim made undisclosed contributions in 2012 as part of a «dark - money» scheme to defeat Prop 30, an initiative that raised income taxes on the richest Californians and sales tax on all Californians.

As a dark money group, ERN and ERNA refuse to disclose the names of their donors.

Traditionally «dark money» is money received by a political organization under the «shadow of darkness» — referring to political spending meant to influence the decision of a voter, where the donor is not disclosed and the source of the money is unknown in the form of a political action committee or SuperPAC.

Those big donors aren't exactly helpless, and protecting the injection of «secret, dark money» in any campaign only backfires.

The Donor Class and Streams of Dark Money The historian Plutarch warned us long ago of what happens when there is no brake on the power of great wealth to subvert the electorate.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

Worse still, they're bankrolled by dark money — we've exposed the shady group behind their lavish pro-Brexit campaigning, but they're still refusing to name their secret donors.

Frontiers of Freedom, run by George Landrith, has received significant funding from Exxon, the Koch brothers and dark money organizations like Donors Trust.

ALEC is aggressively pushing a model resolution designed to stop states and municipalities from requiring dark - money groups that spend millions to influence elections to disclose their donors, and has launched the misnamed Center to Protect Free Speech to lobby for it.

The Franklin Center is 95 % funded by Donors Trust, the «Dark Money ATM» that hides money from the Kochs and other secretive political manipulaMoney ATM» that hides money from the Kochs and other secretive political manipulamoney from the Kochs and other secretive political manipulators.

«Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $ 479 Million Of Dark Money,» DeSmogBlog, May 12, 2015.

Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $ 479 Million Of Dark Money - DeSmogBlog

In late 2013, for example, researchers at Drexel University attempted to trace the sources of «dark money» — money that had been donated by industry interests to dubious «research» institutions and think tanks through organizations that obscure the original donors.

The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable «dark money» funneled through groups like Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and pollution.

about Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $ 479 Million Of Dark Money

The estimate does not include so - called dark money, unlimited amounts of cash that donors can use to support candidates without public disclosure.

All of the following State Policy Network affiliates (except the Kansas Policy Institute) are directly funded by the Koch brothers, while most of the groups get secretive grants through the Koch - affiliated «Dark Money ATM,» Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which have distributed over $ 120,000,000 to 100 groups involved in climate denial since 2002.

However, Brulle found that from 2008, open funding dropped while funding through untraceable donor networks such as Donors Trust (otherwise known as the «dark money ATM») increased.

Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $ 1 billion a year, according to the first in - depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort.

A close review of all publicly reported grants from the «dark money ATM,» Donors Capital Fund, shows that it sent combined grants to TPPF in 2010 totaling $ 667,508.