We are asking you to send a quick email to your legislators to hold them to their promise – no more backtracking or delays on campaign finance reform.

We’ve already passed legislation that would ensure we have campaign finance reform here in Oregon. But the special interests who buy influence want our state lawmakers to back down before these measures are implemented. And our legislators have been folding.

Two years ago, the Oregon legislature passed HB 4024, which finally put limits on the amount of money that could be spent to influence Oregon’s elections and politics. After passing the bill, legislators promised to come back the next year to clean up any technical ambiguities in the legislation. Legislators broke their promise and last year they quietly tried to slip through a bill in the last week of session to push off implementation of campaign finance reform into the next decade! Together, we shut that down. But they’ll likely try again during the 5-week legislative session that kicked off this week.

Our state lawmakers are under pressure. Those who are used to buying influence want them to backtrack on reforms already passed.