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The previous record was set in 2004, when the teams spent roughly $5.2 million in inflation-adjusted dollars in an effort to pass the unsuccessful Bi-State II sales tax campaign to benefit the ...
With Election Day approaching, political candidates have filed new campaign finance reports with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. Candidates who receive or spend more than $1,000 must ...
Technically, the voters would be approving a new 3/8th-cent sales tax lasting until 2064 to replace the current 3/8th-cent tax that expires in 2031. But the campaign ignores that nuance and ...
OpenSecrets is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying, including a revolving door database which documents the individuals who have worked in both the public sector and lobbying firms and may have conflicts of interest.
The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback signing a bill cutting state taxes (Kansas Senate Bill Substitute HB 2117), in May 2012, [1] [2] and ended with the Kansas legislature's repeal of the bill in June 2017.
In addition, candidates may spend up to $50,000 from their own personal funds. Such spending does not count against the expenditure limit. Minor party candidates and new party candidates may become eligible for partial public funding of their general election campaigns. (A minor party candidate is the nominee of a party whose candidate received ...
Diagram by the Sunlight Foundation depicting the American campaign finance system. The financing of electoral campaigns in the United States happens at the federal, state, and local levels by contributions from individuals, corporations, political action committees, and sometimes the government. Campaign spending has risen steadily at least ...
Kansas law – K.S.A. 25-4154(a) – prohibits political contributions by one person “in the name of another person.” The Ethics Commission is relying in part on the law to investigate the ...