Wednesday, October 19, 2011

A Lower Court stand against Super Pac's

'FRANKFORT — A Franklin Circuit Judge issued a rare restraining order Monday to stop a group from airing attack ads against Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear after finding that the organization violated Kentucky’s campaign finance laws'.

'The Kentucky Democratic Party asked for the order against Restoring America, a third-party campaign committee, after the group failed to properly disclose its donors in a report to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance in recent days'.

'The group, organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Service code, must report the source of its more than $1.3 million in contributions to the registry, according to state campaign finance laws. But the committee’s finance report listed Restoring America Inc. as its only contributor. Both Restoring America and Restoring America Inc. were started on the same day and use the same mailing address'.
From : http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2011/10/17/judge-restoring-america-can-no-longer-run-ads-against-beshear/

It will be over turned and quickly but I liked what the Judge said about why he ruled :

'“By hiding the contributors to the 527 from the public, respondents have immediately and irreparably harmed the petitioner and the public of their right to have a transparent campaign finance system whereby all contributors are disclosed publicly,” Wingate wrote'.

Sadly for Judge Wingate, the Supreme Court doesn't agree with him.


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