Tell The FEC to Stop Secret Money From Poisoning Our Elections!

During the 2014 elections, while citizens were making important decisions about issues and candidates, dark money groups were spending millions of dollars of secret money to tip the balance toward their candidates, while hiding their donors.

At the same time, Super PACs raised and spent more than $600 million to elect candidates to do their bidding. Big-dollar donors can use supposedly "independent" Super PACs for unlimited giving, but in reality, there are many ways to coordinate with candidate campaigns.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC), the agency in charge of our nation's campaign finance laws, has done practically nothing to address the U.S. Supreme Court's awful decision in Citizens United, which unleashed the tide of secret and unlimited spending in our elections. The FEC has authority under existing law to set disclosure rules and rigorously define "coordination," but, thus far, has refused to do so.

The American voter has a right to know who is funding political campaigns and to have the law against unlimited coordinated expenditures strictly enforced.

Send a message today: Tell the FEC to shine a light on secret money and stop coordinated expenditures by outside groups.
The Federal Election Commission must stop the dark money polluting our elections and the so-called “independent” spending by outside groups that is poisoning our political system. The FEC has authority under existing law to require disclosure of election spending and to rigorously define “coordination” to prevent millions of dollars of special interest spending by outside groups that is not really “independent.” Do your duty and enforce the law.

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Our American democracy depends on having well-informed voters, and your refusal to require disclosure is undermining our representative democracy. Voters have a right to know who is funding political campaigns – whether it is corporations, wealthy individuals or labor unions. The Supreme Court has endorsed disclosure and it is unacceptable that the FEC is failing to restore transparency to political campaigns.

I am tired of big-money special interests overwhelming our elections. Super PACs and other outside groups are raising and spending unlimited sums, which reached more than $600 million dollars in 2014. The rationale that allows this to continue is that the spending is somehow “independent.” But we know that Super PACs and others have many ways to coordinate with candidate campaigns – leading to inevitable corruption. FEC regulations need to rigorously define “coordination” to end the charade of “independent” expenditures.

Fair and clean elections, determined by the votes of American citizens, should be at the center of our democracy – not big money from secret sources. As long as dark money groups hide their funders and outside special interest groups can spend unlimited amounts behind the mask of “independent” spending, our democratic principles are at risk.

I urge you to restore transparency and enforce robust disclosure rules.

Sincerely,

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