How can any honest person or business oppose a campaign spending disclosure law like this one described by Alternet? [1]
It’s a good rule of thumb: If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — the trade association for large corporations — is whipped up about something, there’s probably good reason for the public to strongly back whatever has sent the Chamber into fits.
Well, the Chamber is apoplectic over a modest Obama administration proposed executive order that would require government contractors to reveal all of their campaign-related spending.
What the Chamber fears is that the new law would would require disclosures regarding “secret contributions that corporations funnel through trade associations and front groups to influence elections,” and this would include the Chamber itself.
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