Post by Logan on Feb 23, 2016 8:22:17 GMT -6
Governor Charlie Baker has been collecting significant money from unidentified donors to finance his campaign aimed at blocking the conservative wing of the GOP from controlling the Massachusetts Republican Party.
Since January, Baker has hit up wealthy donors, mostly at several small dinners, to finance a slate of 52 candidates for the party’s 80-member state committee in elections that will be decided on March 1.
But the governor and his political advisers, citing campaign finance laws that exempt their activities from public scrutiny, are adamant that they will not release names of the contributors who have helped him finance the campaign.
Baker political adviser Jim Conroy confirmed the governor and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito have been raising funds for his campaign to control the party apparatus, but said the law does not require public filings with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance for this sort of campaign.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/22/governor-raises-money-from-unidentified-donors-shape-mass-republican-party/xXwsWIZNz085hvUfXWwciI/story.html
Since January, Baker has hit up wealthy donors, mostly at several small dinners, to finance a slate of 52 candidates for the party’s 80-member state committee in elections that will be decided on March 1.
But the governor and his political advisers, citing campaign finance laws that exempt their activities from public scrutiny, are adamant that they will not release names of the contributors who have helped him finance the campaign.
Baker political adviser Jim Conroy confirmed the governor and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito have been raising funds for his campaign to control the party apparatus, but said the law does not require public filings with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance for this sort of campaign.
Read more: www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/22/governor-raises-money-from-unidentified-donors-shape-mass-republican-party/xXwsWIZNz085hvUfXWwciI/story.html