{"id":13772,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grassroots-activism-needed-to-shine-light-on-dark-money-in-political-fundraising\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"se-necesita-activismo-de-base-para-arrojar-luz-sobre-el-dinero-oscuro-en-la-recaudacion-de-fondos-politicos","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articles\/grassroots-activism-needed-to-shine-light-on-dark-money-in-political-fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"Se necesita activismo de base para arrojar luz sobre el \u201cdinero oscuro\u201d en la recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos pol\u00edticos."},"template":"","class_list":["post-13772","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Grassroots activism needed to shine light on \"dark money' in political fundraising","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":13692}"],"related_issues":[137,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

(Esta publicaci\u00f3n fue publicada como columna invitada en el Cambridge Chronicle, haga clic aqu\u00ed<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

Cuatro a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de la mayor\u00eda de la Corte Suprema en Ciudadanos Unidos contra FEC<\/a><\/em> promised unlimited political fundraising posed no risks of corruption as long as the donors are disclosed, the 2014 election is shaping up to have the most undisclosed money ever. And with Congress tied in knots on nearly every policy issue, we shouldn't hold our breath for a legislative fix to shine a light on this \"dark money.\"<\/p>

It wasn't too long ago that \"transparency\" and \"disclosure\" in political fundraising were rallying cries from Republicans. In 1987, Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell supported disclosure.<\/p>

Continu\u00f3 en esta l\u00ednea, al igual que los dem\u00e1s miembros del Partido Republicano hasta 2010. Temas similares se articularon en el infame Ciudadanos unidos<\/em> decisi\u00f3n escrita por el juez Kennedy que ha resultado en una nueva ola de recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos pol\u00edticos no revelada:<\/p>

\"With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters.\"<\/p>

Se cre\u00eda que el dinero en pol\u00edtica no era un problema siempre que la gente supiera de d\u00f3nde proven\u00eda. El poder de este conocimiento qued\u00f3 demostrado por el revuelo generado cuando en 2010 se descubri\u00f3 que Target Corporation contribu\u00eda a un candidato a gobernador que se opon\u00eda a los derechos civiles de las personas LGBT.<\/p>

En los a\u00f1os transcurridos desde la Ciudadanos unidos<\/em> decision, the Republicans have changed their tune \"sound familiar, the individual mandate in Obamacare was originally a Republican idea. They have successfully opposed the Ley de DIVULGACI\u00d3N<\/a> a nivel federal y no se muestran entusiasmados con una legislaci\u00f3n similar a nivel estatal.<\/p>

Pero incluso con la v\u00eda legislativa cerrada, a\u00fan existen opciones para quienes valoramos la transparencia en la financiaci\u00f3n de nuestras campa\u00f1as pol\u00edticas. La primera abarca a todos los donantes; la segunda, solo a las corporaciones.<\/p>

According to the Common Cause campaign \"Derecho a saber<\/a>\":<\/p>

Section 317 of the Communications Act requires on-air identification of the sponsors of all advertisements, political as well as commercial. Explaining the rules it wrote to implement the statute, the FCC stipulated years ago that political ads must \"fully and fairly disclose the true identity of the person or persons, or corporation, committee, association or other unincorporated group, or other entity\" paying for them. \"Listeners are entitled to know by whom they are being persuaded,\" the commission said.<\/p>

Unfortunately, this rule is not properly enforced as the commission allows the publisher of the advertisement to be the advertiser of record and allows the donors to hide behind this faade. It is important that the FCC remove this loophole and provide true transparency for political advertisements so that, in the words of the legislation we \"know by whom we are being persuaded.\"<\/p>

El La segunda v\u00eda es acercar el tratamiento de las corporaciones<\/a> and unions into alignment. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Beck v. Communication Workers of America (1988), unions have had to rely on \"voluntary\" contributions from members to fund their political activities. In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that unions could only legally collect fees to cover their administrative and collective bargaining expenses; thus, members could opt out of paying any additional dues that were used for political activities.<\/p>

The equivalent constraint for a corporation would be for shareholders to have the right to control corporate political activity. Such constraints might be imposed in two ways. First, the shareholders as a body might be required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to vote on the next year's political activity budget and on broad lines on the issues on which it is to be expended. Given the lethargic shareholder governance that currently exists, this would leave the decisions on political expenditure where it is today: in the hands of top management.<\/p>

The second approach would be to give each shareholder the right to \"opt out\" of making a contribution to political activity. He or she could request that her\/his proportion of the political budget be redirected to charity instead of being used for political activity. Alternatively, the individual shareholder could direct to which politician(s) his or her share of the political budget was to be directed. Equitable treatment of unions and corporations requires that one or other of these systems to constrain corporate spending be incorporated as quickly as possible. If the SEC cannot be persuaded to constrain corporate political speech, it should at the very least require firms to disclose what they have spent and said.<\/p>

Por supuesto, lograr cambios en las normas de la FCC o la SEC no ser\u00e1 f\u00e1cil. Hay poderosos intereses creados y adinerados que se opondr\u00e1n a estos planes. Solo un activismo popular generalizado puede superar esta resistencia.<\/p>

Martin Evans es miembro de la junta directiva de Common Cause Massachusetts. <\/em><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nGrassroots activism needed to shine light on “dark money’ in political fundraising - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/se-necesita-activismo-de-base-para-arrojar-luz-sobre-el-dinero-oscuro-en-la-recaudacion-de-fondos-politicos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grassroots activism needed to shine light on “dark money’ in political fundraising\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/es\/articulos-2\/se-necesita-activismo-de-base-para-arrojar-luz-sobre-el-dinero-oscuro-en-la-recaudacion-de-fondos-politicos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grassroots-activism-needed-to-shine-light-on-dark-money-in-political-fundraising\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/grassroots-activism-needed-to-shine-light-on-dark-money-in-political-fundraising\/\",\"name\":\"Grassroots activism needed to shine light on “dark money’ in political fundraising - 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