Campaign Finance Reform - in Oregon

Campaign Finance Reform - in Oregon

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Controversial Dark Money Group, People For Portland, Dissolves Amid State Elections Investigation
Controversial Dark Money Group, People For Portland, Dissolves Amid State Elections Investigation
Updated: 9:20 am Sept. 30 A short-lived political advocacy organization that ruffled feathers with downtown billboards targeting elected officials is reportedly calling it quits. As first reported by The Oregonian, People For Portland is shuttering its organization and its associated activities. That announcement comes six months after the state deemed the group violated Oregon election law in 2022 for failing to properly register its political expenditures with the Secretary of State. A separate investigation into...
·portlandmercury.com·
Controversial Dark Money Group, People For Portland, Dissolves Amid State Elections Investigation
Auditors Determine Insufficient Evidence that Rene Gonzalez Violated Campaign Finance Laws
Auditors Determine Insufficient Evidence that Rene Gonzalez Violated Campaign Finance Laws
The Portland City Auditor’s Office announced Monday that it found “insufficient evidence” to support allegations of campaign finance violations from City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Rene Gonzalez. The investigation was launched after the city’s Elections Office (a division of the Auditor’s Office) received two emailed complaints and one formal complaint last month about Gonzalez’s use of taxpayer money to alter his Wikipedia page. Complainants asserted the use of taxpayer funds by a sitting commissioner to...
·portlandmercury.com·
Auditors Determine Insufficient Evidence that Rene Gonzalez Violated Campaign Finance Laws
Portland candidates talked swapping donations to hit small donor threshold | Worth Your Time
Portland candidates talked swapping donations to hit small donor threshold | Worth Your Time
Willamette Week's Sophie Peel broke the story about messages between candidates suggesting they trade donations as they tried to qualify for public matching ...
Your piece strongly implies that the reciprocal donations were not counted toward the 250 needed to qualify for the public funding program. But the program did not disqualify those donations. It treated them like any other donations. The director of the program stated that it was up to each candidate to not report those donations as "qualifying," but in fact the candidates did report those donations as qualifying.
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Portland candidates talked swapping donations to hit small donor threshold | Worth Your Time