Hawaii just made history, becoming the first state in the nation to effectively ban dark money in elections. The new law takes a novel approach: rather than ...
People are allowed to create independent campaigns for candidates as long as they don’t coordinate with the official campaign. These independent campaigns can spend unlimited money and are protected by the first amendment since citizens united passed. But most people dont want to go through the hassle of creating a campaign.
What Hawaii has done will stop PACs and is a big step to stop dark money.
Guessing it will be something like a “donate and we’ll compensate that donation y%”, where y might even exceed 100, or maybe even just a vague “if x candidate wins, we’ll be doing so well everyone will probably get a raise”.
Don’t wanna be the party popper, but corporations will still find a way. It would just happen more covertly.
People are allowed to create independent campaigns for candidates as long as they don’t coordinate with the official campaign. These independent campaigns can spend unlimited money and are protected by the first amendment since citizens united passed. But most people dont want to go through the hassle of creating a campaign.
What Hawaii has done will stop PACs and is a big step to stop dark money.
I am just saying what happened over the table will start happening under the table. I come from third world, I am just uttering what I see here
And you’re almost certainly correct, but honestly that would still be an improvement to legalized corruption.
so, organizing people and doing stuff like that under the table to get around limits and such is the basis of a lot of different crimes.
Guessing it will be something like a “donate and we’ll compensate that donation y%”, where y might even exceed 100, or maybe even just a vague “if x candidate wins, we’ll be doing so well everyone will probably get a raise”.