{"id":12521,"date":"2018-06-08T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/"},"modified":"2018-06-08T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T23:10:11","slug":"studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies Track Damage Done By Runaway, Secret Political Spending"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12521","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Hidden donors are bankrolling more than one-third of the nation's governors and their policy agendas through phony non-profit groups.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"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":"Two reports issued this week by government watchdog groups provide fresh and disquieting evidence of the continuing damage being done to American politics by runaway \u2013 and often secret \u2013 political spending.\r\n\r\n\u201cShadow Governors,\u201d<\/a> a study released by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW), reports that governors of 19 states have ties to non-profit political front groups that take advantage of a loophole in federal tax law that permits them to conceal their donors. More than half Republican governors and one-quarter of the Democrats have connections to the secretive groups and some of the governors are connected to multiple groups, CREW concluded.\r\n\r\nProminent governors exploiting this weakness in our campaign finance laws include Republicans Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio, who has hinted he may challenge President Trump\u2019s renomination in 2020. Democrats linked to dark money include Govs. Steve Bullock of Montana and Andrew Cuomo of New York, also considered potential presidential candidates.\r\n\r\nThe CREW report highlights both \u201cdark money\u201d organizations, which funnel money from hidden donors into campaigns, and what CREW calls \u201cshadow governance\u201d groups, which use money raised in the shadows to advance a governor\u2019s policy agenda.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, in \u201cPrivate Prisons: Principally Profit-Oriented and Politically Pliable,\u201d<\/a> the National Institute on Money in Politics documents nearly $12.5 million in political and lobbying spending during 2016 and \u201917 by the private prison industry.\r\n\r\nPrison operators and vendors that serve them put more than $2 million into campaigns for governor and other state offices and $10.4 million into state lobbying, the report asserts. Some of the biggest chunks of the money went to candidates and political parties in Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott has shifted management of seven prisons to private firms, and Virginia, one of only two states that had a gubernatorial race in 2017.\r\n\r\nIn Florida, the industry invested $1.7 million in lobbying. Meanwhile, in Virginia, Ed Gillespie, the failed Republican candidate for governor, was the greatest single beneficiary of the industry\u2019s campaign spending; his campaign received more than $82,000.\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nStudies Track Damage Done By Runaway, Secret Political Spending - 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\/fr\/articles\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Studies Track Damage Done By Runaway, Secret Political Spending\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/\" \/>\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\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/studies-track-damage-done-by-runaway-secret-political-spending\/\",\"name\":\"Studies Track Damage Done By Runaway, Secret Political Spending - 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