Dark money is killing us

[LaMouffette]

1. Which is why I'm doubly pissed that our former Montana governor Steve Bullock

did not win his Senate race in 2020.

Bullock was/is very much opposed to dark money influences. To counter Citizen's United, he signed into law the Disclose Act, which requires "anonymous groups to report how they’re spending money in state political races" (from this article:

https://www.mtpr.org/post/bullock-gianforte-react-campaign-finance-disclosure-ruling

As a US senator, he would've been a very strong voice in opposition to Citizen's United. Instead, we're stuck with Steve Daines for our second senator (thank God for Senator Jon Tester!), and just as bad or worse, we've got Greg Gianforte for governor. Gianforte is particularly abhorrent because he fought mightily against Bullock's Disclose Act. Now that he's governor and we have a Republican-controlled state legislature, it would be no surprise to see our Disclose Act repealed.

But that's what's needed: for states to enact their own anti–dark money laws. A piece of cake in Democrat-controlled state legislatures; not so easy in red states, but Montana shows that it can be done.

By the way, did you see this anti-corruption video posted by someone here on DU yesterday? It has the same message of rooting out corruption at state level first. I think everyone should watch it.

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