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Statehouse Republicans Want Campaign Disclosure
Republicans in Washington want the secret money to keep flowing. Republicans in state legislatures aren't so sure.
Unless you can afford it.
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While Republicans in Congress continue to smother proposals for campaign finance transparency, statehouse Republicans from Maine to Montana are moving in the opposite direction. Some Republican state legislators are pushing back against the free-spending super-PACs and secretive independent groups that have been transforming U.S. politics into a proxy war among the super rich.
"When somebody's hiding in the shadows and gut-shoots you, you have a right to know who's taking a shot at you," Montana State Senator Duane Ankney told the Montana Standard earlier this year.