Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items, including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to
make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple limited liability companies.
Individuals can
make unlimited contributions to political committees.
Those limits on candidate donations have been dramatically surpassed by the increasingly common practice of using nonprofit groups as a vehicle to
make unlimited contributions to independent political committees.
Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to
make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.
Not exact matches
These organizations can receive
unlimited corporate, individual, or union
contributions that they do not have to
make public, and though their political activity is supposed to be limited, the IRS — which has jurisdiction over these groups — by and large has done little to enforce those limits.
If there is anything recent events have taught us, it's that we need to limit the outsized influence of wealthy corporate donors, who have been able to influence lawmakers by
making virtually
unlimited campaign
contributions to candidates — often without even disclosing their identities.
Close the «LLC» Loophole, which allows an individual to
make an essentially
unlimited number of political
contributions via the Limited Liability Companies they control — a common tactic of real estate moguls.
This bizarre legal loophole allows essentially
unlimited contributions to state political campaigns by allowing people to
make contributions via an
unlimited number of Limited Liability Corporations, or shell companies.
Since then, certain donors have taken advantage of this loophole to set up numerous LLC's in order to
make virtually
unlimited campaign
contributions.
Last year Flanagan successfully blocked any action reforming the LLC loophole that allows corporations to
make unlimited campaign
contributions.
With our Premier Plus account you can even add a honeymoon fund, cash
contributions, charity donations and
unlimited bespoke cash gifts to your list,
making multiple gift lists a thing of the past.
These organizations can receive
unlimited corporate, individual, or union
contributions that they do not have to
make public, and though their political activity is supposed to be limited, the IRS — which has jurisdiction over these groups — by and large has done little to enforce those limits.
But sometimes we can't
make unlimited extra payments, or we have a minimum
contribution at a time.