Last week, voters from both parties in the polarized state of Arizona overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that will require large anonymous “dark money” political donors to reveal their identities.
Last week’s midterm elections showed that the country remains deeply divided along partisan lines, but there was one exception that has been largely overlooked. Voters from both parties in all fifteen counties of the polarized state of Arizona came together and overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that will require large anonymous “dark money” political donors to reveal their identities.
As was shown in a leaked recording of a conference call between conservative dark-money groups about which, top political operatives know that voters in both parties resent the manipulation of elections by secretive billionaires. In order to preserve the anonymity of their wealthy backers, they have tried to kill reform efforts behind closed doors in Congress rather than risk public votes on the issue, such as the Arizona referendum.
His long crusade began in 2014, when Goddard, an Arizona Democrat, ran for secretary of state on a platform demanding more disclosure of campaign spending. Ironically, he was defeated, in part, by a flood of dark money spent against him and several other candidates that year.
Just before Election Day, Scot Mussi, the president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, which is itself a conservative dark-money group, gaveto The Center Square, a publication sponsored by yet another conservative dark-money group, in which he argued that Proposition 211 represented an unconstitutional infringement of free speech.
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