OPINION: Can a church really funnel dark money into the campaign against Prop 1?
Dark money has become the root of evil in political campaigns across the country. National interest groups seem to be lurking everywhere, seeing where they can influence an election without disclosing their identity. Idaho’s Attorney General may now be inviting dark money into the campaign against Idaho’s Proposition One (Prop 1), the measure to repeal Idaho’s total abortion ban.
Attorney General Labrador has just issued an official opinion concluding that a “nonbusiness entity church” that spends more than $1,000 to oppose Prop 1 “as an exercise of that church’s religious beliefs” does not have to disclose the identity of its donors. That is, the church is exempt from the Sunshine Law’s reporting requirements simply because of some religious objection to abortion. The opinion would allow out-of-state interest groups to funnel tons of money through those churches into the campaign against Prop 1, without voters learning of their identity.
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