{"id":2947,"date":"2016-06-20T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T19:29:45","slug":"democrat-scam-campaign-finance-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/democrat-scam-campaign-finance-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"A Democrat Scam on Campaign Finance Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Holli Woodings is heading up an effort called &#8220;Keep Idaho Elections Accountable&#8221;. This very large political action committee has been collecting signatures to &#8220;reform&#8221; Idaho&#8217;s Sunshine Law \u2014 the statute governing campaign finance.<\/p>\n<p>Woodings claims that she is all about &#8220;ordinary&#8221; Idahoans and the grassroots. She asserts that her reform effort is designed to &#8220;reduce the influence of big money in politics&#8221;. But the truth is, that is all a bunch of hokum-smokum.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest campaign finance report shows that she has raised nearly $230,000 to collect signatures and build a Democrat database. $132,000 of that came in the month of May alone. While her initiative would limit legislative candidates to receiving donations of no more than $500, her report shows that 91% of the money she hauled in last month for her ballot measure came from just 5 donors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Von Mueffling (New York) \u2014 $25,000<\/li>\n<li>Weston Milliken (Los Angeles) \u2014 $20,000<\/li>\n<li>Blaire Hull (Chicago) \u2014 $25,000<\/li>\n<li>Henry Pincus (New York) \u2014 $25,000<\/li>\n<li>Matt Cutts (Nebraska) \u2014 $25,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and please note: Not only is this huge money from a very small universe, but none of these people live in Idaho. One must ask why folks in LA or New York are so terribly concerned about Idaho&#8217;s local elections? And what is &#8220;average&#8221; about multi-millionaires funding the Woodings initiative? We don&#8217;t know about all the players on her list, but Henry Pincus, as an example, is heir to his father&#8217;s Wall Street fortune. (You know &#8230; one of those evil &#8220;one percenters&#8221;&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Obviously more is going on here than Ms. Woodings would care for us to know.<\/p>\n<p>It is also rich that Ms. Woodings, on her way to &#8220;reforming&#8221; Idaho&#8217;s campaign finance law, may have violated current state law by failing to report several large donations in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>We strongly suspect that Democrats&#8217; work on campaign finance &#8220;reform&#8221; is an extension of national efforts to put a choke chain on the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is already very difficult for candidates to challenge incumbents because of the inability to generate a critical pile of campaign money. If Woodings succeeds at getting her scam &#8220;reform&#8221; measure on the ballot, that challenge becomes even greater for conservatives of limited personal means to win office.<\/p>\n<p>And then we must state the obvious fact that Woodings is hoping to ride this initiative into another run for Secretary of State in 2018. Let&#8217;s hope that the activists she hired to concoct another &#8220;astro-turf&#8221; movement were too lazy to get signatures from actual Idaho voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Holli Woodings is heading up an effort called &#8220;Keep Idaho Elections Accountable&#8221;. This very large political action committee has been collecting signatures to &#8220;reform&#8221; Idaho&#8217;s Sunshine Law \u2014 the statute governing campaign finance. Woodings claims that she is all about &#8220;ordinary&#8221; Idahoans and the grassroots. She asserts that her reform effort is designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16030,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/16030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}