"Leadership Funds" are also used as a tool to lock down control of the members in each chamber who are dependent on receiving campaign funds from their leader. Right now, under legislative rules, lawmaker controlled committees must post contributions and expenditures within 10 days. If these new "Leadership Funds" are allowed then reporting will be quarterly and it will be even less transparent then it is now. Rather than legitimize "leadership funds," the legislature should close the loopholes in campaign finance law that allow this practice to continue despite the existing ban.
Please call or e-mail Governor Charlie Crist as soon as possible and ask him to VETO House Bill 1207!
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