{"id":249,"date":"2022-03-11T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:45:02","slug":"common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Georgia calls on Senate to Pass Campaign Finance Bill before Crossover Day"},"template":"","class_list":["post-249","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"With a March 15 deadline for action, Common Cause Georgia is calling on the Senate to quickly approve a bill to prohibit legislatively-affiliated political committees from raising money during a legislative session.","featured_image":6528,"press_type":145,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7815}"],"related_issues":[92,105,402],"related_work":false,"location":13},"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":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a March 15 deadline for action, Common Cause Georgia is calling on the Senate to quickly approve SB 580 and send it to the House.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/62487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> would prohibit legislatively-affiliated political committees from raising money during a legislative session. Legislators\u2019 campaigns are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/codes.findlaw.com\/ga\/title-21-elections\/ga-code-sect-21-5-35.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">already prohibited<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from fundraising during the legislative session; this bill would extend that restriction to legislative leadership committees.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill comes in the wake of last year\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/59920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 221<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which authorized the creation of \u201cLeadership Committees\u201d that can raise unlimited amounts of money, including during legislative sessions. A \u201cleadership committee\u201d affiliated with Governor Brian Kemp reportedly raised about $355,000 during the first month of this legislative session \u2013 with \u201cseveral of the contributions\u201d coming \u201cfrom Capitol interests,\u201d according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/kemps-special-leadership-fund-raises-23-million\/TLROKWZNDRGOTH6KB3EZGJTHXI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other \u201cleadership committees\u201d can be created by the political party caucuses of the Georgia House and Senate. Under current law, legislative leadership committees can raise unlimited amounts of money even during the legislative session.<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i>Statement of Common Cause Georgia Executive Director Aunna Dennis<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Georgians deserve to be able to have confidence that our laws aren\u2019t being bought and sold to benefit political committees.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, right now, there\u2019s nothing to prevent an industry association looking for a tax break from making a six-figure donation to a legislative leadership committee. There\u2019s nothing to prevent a corporation from donating lots of money and then seeking special treatment from the legislative leaders running these committees. There\u2019s nothing at all about this system that protects the interests of Georgian voters and taxpayers \u2013 it just looks like it\u2019s all for sale.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 580 would be a small step in the right direction. It doesn\u2019t limit the money that a legislative leadership committee can raise from political donors; but it would prohibit raising money while the General Assembly is in session and acting on bills that donors may have an interest in..\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are heartened that the Senate Ethics Committee reported SB 580 out favorably this week. But the bill will die without a Senate floor vote by next Tuesday.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We urge the Senate leadership to do the right thing by Georgia\u2019s voters, and pass this bill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Read testimony about SB 580 from Common Cause Georgia Executive Director Aunna Dennis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/03\/2022-03-CGA-SB-580-Testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Georgia calls on Senate to Pass Campaign Finance Bill before Crossover Day - Common Cause Georgia<\/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\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Georgia calls on Senate to Pass Campaign Finance Bill before Crossover Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Georgia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-calls-on-senate-to-pass-campaign-finance-bill-before-crossover-day\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Georgia calls on Senate to Pass Campaign Finance Bill before Crossover Day - 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