Showing posts with label Americans United for Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Americans United for Change. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Washington Post's Dan Eggen serves up a delicious slice of hypocrisy re transparency: "Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves"


Sunlight Foundation video: Washington's Lobbyist Fix -- The Advisory Committee on Transparency. March 16, 2011. I'm posting this year-old video because Dan Eggen is a panelist on a forum on the topic of transparency.

The only thing better this week than hot pizza and cold beer while watching the beginning of the NCAA basketball tourney on TV -unexpectedly being served-up some sweet hypocrisy on a silver platter!
More, please!

The Washington Post
The Influence Industry blog
Pro-disclosure groups often don’t disclose themselves
By Dan Eggen, 
Published: March 14, 2012
In a bid to limit the impact of “secret money” in the 2012 elections, a coalition of liberal-leaning groups announced a campaign this week aimed at pressuring corporations to reveal donations to political groups.
There is one complication, however: Many of the groups behind the effort also don’t disclose their donors to the public.
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Take a look while you're at it at the WaPo's Campaign 2012 Campaign Finance Explorer chart at http://wapo.st/zESKIX


Follow Dan Eggen on Twitter at:@DanEggenWPost