U.S. Chamber of Commerce: CPA-Zicklin Index is Really a Tool to Silence the Business Community (In the News)

October 2, 2014   •  By Scott Blackburn
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By Sean Hackbarth
There’s a cottage industry of advocacy groups demanding greater transparency of businesses’ advocacy spending. One tool they use is the “CPA-Zicklin Index,” produced by the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center, which claims to measure public companies’ political disclosure policies.
In the Wall Street Journal, David Primo, an associate professor of political science and business administration at the University of Rochester and an adviser to the Center for Competitive Politics, pulls back the curtain and reveals the real intent of the index and the groups behind it. It’s not about making advocacy spending more transparent. Instead, it’s about driving the business community out [subscription required] of public policy debates to advance an ideological agenda…
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