Disclosure, in the campaign finance context, refers to laws and regulations requiring candidates and political groups to report information about their activities to the government, which then makes that information available publicly. The required information varies greatly, depending on the affected organization and the local, state, or federal government mandating the disclosure. Disclosure rules fall into two broad categories: disclosure…
On Wednesday, Senator Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post about the problems with disclosure (The IRS scandal and Obama’s culture of ...
Since our last update, shareholder proposals to increase disclosure and ban political expenditures in public companies have continued the trend of not coming anywhere ...
David Keating appeared on Thom Hartmann’s The Big Picture yesterday, discussing disclosure of non-profit information beyond what is already required by law. “There are ...
Proxy results keep rolling in, and shareholders keep voting against proposals to force more disclosure of corporate political activity, despite the continued assurances by ...
Tuesday, Washington Post’s Ezra Klein took to his Wonk Blog and offered something of an apology for getting “way too excited” over the influence ...
As campaign finance activists and Democratic Party shills continue to urge the SEC to involve itself in campaign finance – in this case by ...
The Manhattan Institute’s indispensible Proxy Monitor reports two more overwhelming shareholder votes against disclosure of immaterial political expenditures. At Humana, a union introduced measure ...
Read more from Brad on this issue here. It used to be that the standard line of the “reform” community was that corporations had ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I respectfully submit the following comments on constitutional issues with portions of Assembly Measure No. 3863. ...
Note: An earlier version of this post incorrectly claimed that Walden Asset Management had submitted a proposal at Praxair, and that they encouraged shareholders ...