After months operating in the dark, campaign groups hustle to register after Reformer inquiries
Campaign groups advocating for and against Minneapolis ballot questions hustled to get registered after the Reformer began asking why they were raising and spending campaign money without registering with Hennepin County Elections, which effectively allowed some of them to campaign without any financial transparency for months.
Operation Safety Now and Minneapolis Together have been actively promoting the first ballot question — which would give more authority to the mayor over city departments — for months, but just registered with the county on Monday, county records show.
That’s allowed them to raise money from unknown contributors and spend it on unknown vendors, even as city voters have begun going to the polls.
Another group that has been promoting the strong-mayor charter amendment and is part of Minneapolis Together, Charter for Change, registered with Hennepin County Elections Thursday morning after first erroneously telling the Reformer they registered with the state campaign finance board.
Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/10/07/after-months-operating-in-the-dark-campaign-groups-hustle-to-register-after-reformer-inquiries/
