Who Pays For WMC Watch

Someone with the initial 'B' wrote a comment to the post, The Real Problem Caperton v. Massey poses to WMC and the Right Wing Fronts:

I'd like to know an itemized list of where the money for WMC Watch is coming from. If you demand accountability from others, you have to have the integrity and honesty to list your donors as well. Pot calling the kettle black?

These guys just do not get it. But let us try one more time.

WMC and the other fronts like All Children Matter raise millions of dollars to be put into elections. The money goes to buy media -TV, radio and mailers. The money is spent to elect candidates by purchasing advertising in an election.

All the money Soglin Consulting LLC. and WMC Watch receives that is used to elect a candidate is revealed. The amount is zero. Nada. Zilch. Zip.

Soglin Consulting LLC does have income for doing research and monitoring WMC and the other right wing groups. That income is not spent on electioneering. None of that money is spent on electioneering.

A majority of Americans believe that the sources of money used to finance campaigns should be disclosed. No one is telling WMC it cannot participate in the electoral process within the law.

The only issue for WMC and the others, like Americans for Prosperity, is disclosure.

Comments

[R.J.]

Should we disclose our votes too?

[paul]

What does that have to do with anything? In your lifetime the law has always provided for a secret ballot and for disclosure of campaign sources. The only that has changed is that clever people invented new ways to get around the disclosure laws and the legislature is slow to close them. Stop being so silly.

[R.J.]

Not THAT silly (e.g. card check).
If they did disclose would you ~~promise~~ not to punish the donors later?

[Mark]

Paul, so do you type on your computer your rants against Republicans? That's electioneering as well. Advocacy for one candidate or program over another is campaigning for a certain outcome.