Bring in The Light Senator Ensign and Support Senate Bill 223
The Sunlight Foundation, and in particular, Paul Blumenthal, have their sights set on Nevada Senator John Ensign for refusing to budge on Senate Bill 223 which would require Senators to file their campaign finance contribution reports electronically, allowing that information to be more readily available before elections than it is now. Why does Senator Ensign continue to block American citizens from easy access that belongs to them anyway? What do he and the Republican senators have to hide in their campaign finance contribution reports? Release the hold Senator Ensign! America and the majority of your Senate colleagues support the bipartisan bill. Stop making Nevadans look bad–we have about all we can handle with Governor Boob Head Gibbons. From Blumenthal:
Sen. Ensign’s implacable resolve to deny easy public access to campaign finance information appears to be working to keep the public in the dark about the money he and other Senators, like Sen. Mitch McConnell, will be raising this election season. Thanks to Sen. Ensign the public will have less access to vital information about who is funding Senate campaigns. I’m sure those contributors will raise a toast at the next fundraiser Ensign hosts.
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Senator Ensign has no other motive in this other than to block passage of S. 223. He does not want citizens to have timely access to campaign contributor information. This kind of attitude cannot be allowed in Washington anymore.
Common Cause is planning on holding a press conference at Ensign’s Reno office on Monday. For more information contact us through this contact form
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And, how does Senator Ensign rationalize the fact that not requiring electronic filing costs American taxpayers about a quarter of a million in processing expenses? Gee, from his rhetoric on “saving taxpayer dollars” one would think that this might be his priority? However, that ‘priority’ seems not to outweigh his felt need to cover for Senator McConnell and to be the water-carrier for McConnell’s opposition to the bill.