The 527 groups make the decisions, and the companies are associated with the ultimate recipients and the consequences. [...] The Underwriters series examines the role that 527 groups have played in changing control of state legislatures, as well as in the election of attorneys general and governors. [...] The first two reports are Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap and Courting Risk: Corporate Underwriters and State Attorneys General. [...] They lay the groundwork for the third report, Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road. [...] It focuses on the Republican State Leadership Committee, the group’s success in underwriting changes in control of state legislatures beginning in 2010, and the upshot.
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- A Deeper Look at the Scope Impact and Risks of Company Political Spending harvard.edu 1
- Posted by Bruce Freed and Jeanne Hanna Center for Political Accountability on 1
- Saturday September 7 2024 1
- Bruce F. Freed is President and Co-Founder and Jeanne Hanna is a Research Director at the Center for Political Accountability. This post is based on their CPA memorandum. 1
- CPAs research found that public companies and their trade associations have been and are the dominant funders of 527s. It is a little recognized trend that U.S. corporations and 1
- Underwriters 2
- The reports also document how this little-known money trail raises questions about undermining democracy and creating minority rule and associated legislative political and policy outcomes. 2
- It is important to underscore that CPAs new reports carefully and exhaustively follow the money. The following graphics breakdown the sources of money to the 527s since 2010 2
- The first two reports are and . They lay the groundwork for the third report Corporate Underwriters . 4
- Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap Courting Risk Corporate Underwriters and State Attorneys General Where the Rubber Hits the Road 4
- Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap 5
- Courting Risk 5
- Where the Rubber Hits the Road 5
