Campaign finances
March 31 was a campaign finance reporting deadline for, I believe, both state and federal campaigns. If you're curious to learn more about who gets money from whom, or how much money has been raised by the candidates, check out these websites:
state campaigns
federal campaigns
opensecrets.org (This is only federal for CT, but I feel it is a bit easier to navigate and this link starts at 06410.)
What I find curious are the 06410 donations seen flowing to Lieberman, but none to Lamont. I'm guessing that Lamont contributions may be below the $200 reporting minimum. As well, I didn't notice any contributions yet to Alan Schlessinger or Paul Streitz, the two declared Republican candidates for the US Senate. For more info on the US Senate race, check out this blog: Connecticut Local Politics
Tim White
Town Council, 4th District
TimWhite98@yahoo.com
3 comments:
Campaign finance is easy. All contributions need to be a max of $25 per person, per year. That ends all of the nonsense. No lobbyists, no special interests, no hidden agendas.
At our State level, I'm not particularly happy about public funding, but I think it was an acceptable compromise in an effort to move forward on campaign finance reform. CFR was necessary, but it seemed to be going nowhere with everything (such as public funding), but hard money, being ruled out.
Hard money only (such as $25/person/year) is where my heart is, but rules allowing only hard money weren't about to get adopted by the legislature. Compromise was necessary to pass real CFR.
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