I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A new campaign finance law that would require corporations and other groups to disclose their names when airing political ads will exempt the National Rifle Association and other groups according to a deal from Congress to the NRA. The law is in response to the Citizens United ruling by the United State Supreme Court that ruled that corporations and other groups can make unlimited independent campaign finance expenditures in political races.
Democrats in Congress looked to capitalize on the unpopular Supreme Court ruling, and one proposal was to require groups who funded ads to disclose they funded that ads. Much like political committees and politicians now must disclose who funded the ads aired on their behalf.
As The Politico reports:
House Democrats have reached an agreement with the National Rifle Association on campaign-finance legislation that would roll back the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, removing a major obstacle to the bill, according to House sources.
The deal would exempt the NRA and some other large organizations from strict campaign finance disclosures in the bill, which is being pushed by Democratic leaders in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case. The NRA had objected to some of the disclosure requirements for the new campaign finance proposals, and that had kept moderate, pro-gun Democrats from backing the legislation. The NRA said it would not comment until specific legislative language is revealed.
Politico reports the groups that will be exempted from disclosing the ads they back must have more than 1 million members, and members in each of 50 states, raise 15 percent or less of their money from corporations and must have been in existence for more than 10 years.
