Posted on 04/26/2013 5:17:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Socialists allowed to keep donors secret By: Tarini Parti April 26, 2013 05:44 PM EDT
It’s not every day that the Socialist Workers Party agrees with Republicans.
But when it comes to donor disclosure, they’re largely on the same page.
While the call for politically active corporations and nonprofits to disclose donors got louder during the 2012 campaign, the Federal Election Commission on Thursday decided to let federal committees affiliated with the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Workers National Campaign Committee continue to keep their donors secret.
The reason: revealing the identity of the donors could lead to possible intimidation and harassment of socialist supporters.
That’s the same argument that conservative organizations and lawmakers have used in recent years to oppose tightening campaign finance disclosure laws. In their case, it’s mostly to protect big donors from criticism and protest.
Donors like Sheldon Adelson, Foster Freiss and the Koch brothers became household names last year after their contributions to conservative candidates and causes. Financier George Soros similarly achieved notoriety for his big money gifts to liberal causes in past years.
Steve Clark, chairman of the Socialist Workers Party, said the disclosure issue doesn’t matter here.
“We are not advocates of financial disclosure. That’s not the problem in this country,” Clark told POLITICO.
“Big money controls the Democratic and Republican parties from top to bottom,” he added. “You don’t need to don’t need disclosure to know that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Only becuae Obama and his supporters are all socialists.
I’d like to cross reference those donor lists.
The Republicans have to protect their donors’ identities so their businesses won’t burn or explode. The socialists protect their donors’ anonymity so they’ll stay in business!
The same FEC tried to censor Citizen’s United.
That’s not all! Release the thousands of pages of sealed documents regarding the dictator so all Americans can see the truth about that scofflaw!
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