An Open Letter to Senator Patty Murray and Senator Maria Cantwell
Dear Senator Patty Murray and Senator Maria Cantwell:
Thirty-seven Senators currently are co-sponsors of S 482 - the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act. The bill requires candidates for US Senate "to file designations, statements and reports for campaign financing in electronic form."
Both candidates for the US House of Representatives and for President file electronically. The Senate should join them in using the miracle of computers and electronic transmission of data.
I am surprised that you are not a co-sponsor of this bill and urge you to join as a co-sponsor. Washington State was a leader in campaign finance disclosure and still is.
Please add your support to S 482. The public deserves to have campaign finance reports available in a timely fashion.
It is both a waste of taxpayer dollars to send paper reports that need to be re-entered for filing and an unnecessary delay in the public's right to know in a timely manner who is contributing to campaigns.
I also urge you to work to amend the bill to require monthly campaign reports like we have in Washington State for most candidates. Only reporting campaign contributions and expenditures every 3 months deprives the public of timely disclosure they have a right to know.
Steve Zemke
www.MajorityRules.org/blog
May 25, 2009
see S 482 here.
see co-sponsors here.
Thirty-seven Senators currently are co-sponsors of S 482 - the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act. The bill requires candidates for US Senate "to file designations, statements and reports for campaign financing in electronic form."
Both candidates for the US House of Representatives and for President file electronically. The Senate should join them in using the miracle of computers and electronic transmission of data.
I am surprised that you are not a co-sponsor of this bill and urge you to join as a co-sponsor. Washington State was a leader in campaign finance disclosure and still is.
Please add your support to S 482. The public deserves to have campaign finance reports available in a timely fashion.
It is both a waste of taxpayer dollars to send paper reports that need to be re-entered for filing and an unnecessary delay in the public's right to know in a timely manner who is contributing to campaigns.
I also urge you to work to amend the bill to require monthly campaign reports like we have in Washington State for most candidates. Only reporting campaign contributions and expenditures every 3 months deprives the public of timely disclosure they have a right to know.
Steve Zemke
www.MajorityRules.org/blog
May 25, 2009
see S 482 here.
see co-sponsors here.
Labels: campaign disclosure, Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act, Senator Cantwell, Senator Murray
Posted by Steve Zemke at 8:04 PM | Permanent Link
1 Comments:
Great post to Sens Murray and Cantwell. We need as many cosponsors on this bill as possible. Especially if Sen. Roberts (KS) tries to attach a poison pill amendment to the bill.
Please call Sens Murray and Cantwell and ask them to cosponsor S 482 immediately.
For more information go to: http://sunlightfoundation.com/pass482/
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