Intervening under the auspices of the Stop the Senior Tax Committee, the care home industry spent mostly out-of-state money into polling, calling, mailing, letterwriting and lawn signs, campaign consulting and management, and radio, television, online and newspaper advertising. That works out to a breathtaking $40 per vote. The impetus was a November campaign in which well-heeled special interests poured $160,000 into securing a mere 4,000 votes.ĭo the math.
McMinnville now seems poised to move that direction. One thing we can do at every level is demand a much greater degree of campaign finance disclosure and accountability. But given recent court rulings, fixing that will take amendment of our state and federal constitutions.
Granting corporations the same rights as ordinary citizens, utterly unchecked, is one of the key elements in the increasing corruption of our electoral system. And we are allowing arcane rules to cloak the process in anonymity and ambiguity, serving to disguise the forces actually intent on gaming the system. The intent is to allow the public to choose its own representatives, shape the policies they pursue and recall or replace them if they fall short.īut increasingly, that cornerstone is being buried under an avalanche of special interest funding, cynical gerrymandering, partisan voter suppression and insidious digital manipulation, the latter fostered in part by foreign powers. Setting public policy through free, fair and open elections is the cornerstone of democracy. Tweet Mac’s on right track on campaign finance front
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