A Campaign Finance Reform Lesson – the 2021 Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates
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25 responses to “A Campaign Finance Reform Lesson – the 2021 Elections for the Virginia House of Delegates”
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It wasn’t flipped. Somebody cheated. It needs reform.
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So, HB 85 is indeed quite a good little bill. Thanks for highlighting… Note: While it patiently awaits a committee (despite its low number and thus early introduction), a fiscal impact statement has appeared! THAT got rushed…..why? Because they will use that to kill the bill. Creating a new set of criminal offenses to investigate, prosecute and punish has an obvious fiscal cost. Tsk, tsk, tsk, just can’t afford that right now….
I remember well the fine Democrat from Roanoke, Chip Woodrum, who authored the rule that now has his name: A bill creating a criminal justice system cost MUST be accompanied by a budget amendment.
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The issue, as of course I wrote, is the votes of the members, not the votes of the citizens.
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Wait? You mean they’re not our proxies?
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Ask Dominion Energy whose proxies they are. Seriously.
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That’s what PACs are for… “…we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
Now’s the time to pay up.
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You continue to beat everyone else to the blackboard. Snowed in?
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You ain’t? Swept and salted walkway and driveway. Nothing else to do.
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I’ll pay above minimum wage if you can clear mine.
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Travel expenses would break you.
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Nota bene, I did not offer travel expenses.
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Good. I don’t drive in HR in the snow. And unless you’ve VTOL close by…
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So, HB 85 is indeed quite a good little bill. Thanks for highlighting… Note: While it patiently awaits a committee (despite its low number and thus early introduction), a fiscal impact statement has appeared! THAT got rushed…..why? Because they will use that to kill the bill. Creating a new set of criminal offenses to investigate, prosecute and punish has an obvious fiscal cost. Tsk, tsk, tsk, just can’t afford that right now….
I remember well the fine Democrat from Roanoke, Chip Woodrum, who authored the rule that now has his name: A bill creating a criminal justice system cost MUST be accompanied by a budget amendment.
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Makes sense to me. If you’re going to police the GA, then my populace law and order funding shouldn’t bear the brunt.
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I already got a note back from Tim Anderson, thanking me for mentioning his bill. He and Joe Morrissey deserve our thanks. Chap Petersen is in that rather small caucus as well.
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See my comment above. This bill seems not to impose limits on PACs. If that is a case, it is a big loophole.
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Agree. I have recommended that once the bill gets to a committee he at least modify it to limit or ban out-of-state contributions.
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Banning out-of-state contributions is not the same things limiting contributions from PACs. There are plenty of in-state PACs. Dominion has one.
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I agree, but out-of-state contributions, especially to local races, will prove a big issue to Virginians when they find out the extent of them. I am working on that. See https://www.baconsrebellion.com/a-compelling-case-for-campaign-finance-reform-virginia-commonwealths-attorneys/
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I can’t comment on why HB 85 has not been assigned to committee, but the fiscal impact statement was not necessarily “rushed”. The bill was introduced on Jan. 12, and the FIS was not posted until Jan. 21. It really has to do with the workload of the analyst in DPB to whom these bills are assigned.
This is not a Woodrum bill. Only bills creating felony offenses get put in that category. This one only has misdemeanors.
Unless I am missing something, HB 85 has a big, gaping loophole. It does not impose contribution limits on PACs.
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It does indeed. I have written how that can be worked out in committee and given the members a list of what other states, blue and red, do. https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baconsrebellion.com%2Fwp%2Fa-compelling-case-for-campaign-finance-reform-virginia-commonwealths-attorneys%2F%3A_Y8tTRYaAXBKlJqZ4hbgu4eOeZI&cuid=6632217
Dems have advantage under current rules because they’ve been sitting in power and money flows to power because Dems are nothing if not a pay to play operation.
That all changed overnight.
HB85 is short sighted and will hurt GOP orgs who have been rebuilding the party more than it will hurt Dems.
Better idea: Take Dominion Energy out of the political donations market and Clean Virginia has no reason to exist, you kill 2 birds with one stone and all of a sudden those aggregate numbers look a lot more balanced.
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I don’t care which party campaign finance reform “hurts”. It is the right thing to do for the people.
I agree that regulated public utilities should not be permitted to make campaign donations. I also would prohibit donations from state-created and heavily regulated (COPN) health care organizations. Those activities constitute attempts at regulatory capture. Successful attempts.
“Clean Virginia has no reason to exist.” Respectfully, you don’t understand Mr. Bills and his wife.
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I do care which side this hurts more, because stopping the Democrats’ rampage takes priority over purifying the campaign finance system and averts more harm in both the short and long term.
WRT Clean Virginia, stripping their reason for existence will bring some fresh honesty to the situation, and Virginia needs as much honesty as it can get right now.
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I’d be delighted if Dominion gave me a couple bucks more in dividends then gave it to politicians to buy their votes.
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