Campaign Finance Reform - in Oregon

Business and labor groups have negotiated a system of contribution limits they hope to push through before lawmakers adjourn March 10. Critics say the proposal is weak.

Powerful lawmakers from both parties expressed a desire Friday to pass a campaign finance bill.

Critics said a bill would allow unions and small donor committees to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to candidates.

The House Rules Committee will hold a public hearing on the bill on Friday.

Business and labor groups have negotiated a system of contribution limits they hope to push through before lawmakers adjourn March 10. Critics say the proposal is weak.

Legislators say they want to pass campaign contribution limits this session, the editorial board writes. If so, any bill should provide true reforms – not cement in place advantages for their big donors.

A dark money group founded by a national Republican political operative and oil industry lobbyists stepped up its efforts to influence Oregon voters this week, sending mailers and buying ad

The majority of Oregonians want campaign finance reform but apparently cannot agree on how to reform elections beyond campaign finance, according to new survey results from the Oregon Values and

Oregon lawmakers already had a big agenda to tackle in the short legislative session, but a surprise wrinkle entered the fray.

The Coalition for Safe, Healthy and Prosperous Communities doesn’t disclose donors but has spent big to help Republicans.

Democrats and Republicans often clash on the subject of caps on political giving, but are hoping to avoid a messy ballot fight.

With an expensive ballot fight looming, two sides often opposed to one another are attempting to find a path forward in this year's legislative session.

As the cost of fighting wildfires increases, state Sen. Elizabeth Steiner has proposed a bill — developed in consultation with the logging industry — that would shift millions in expenses away from the biggest landowners and onto taxpayers.

Oregon is one of five states that doesn’t regulate the campaign finance money that comes pouring into state and local races.

Gov. Tina Kotek says campaign finance limits will not come up this legislative session.

Oregon teachers unions play a powerful role in state politics and shape public education policy.

Nishad Singh, who gave Oregon Dems $500k in 2022, testified yesterday how he and other FTX officials fraudulently funneled stolen customer funds to political campaigns

A newly formed political committee will seek to raise and spend six figures to hammer Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty and help her opponent Rene Gonzalez in next month’s election.

Oregon DOJ still mum on whether it will investigate possible Oregon law violations

NEW YORK (AP) — A former top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty Thursday to making tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians …

A political nonprofit long led by Oregon's powerful public employee unions wants to set campaign contribution limits in the state — and kill a competing 2024 ballot proposal by campaign finance reformers that would enact tighter limits and stricter ad disclosures.

PCUN joins a handful of other groups petitioning to clarify and limit campaign contributions.

Hoyle may have accepted and unlawfully retained cash contributions from La Mota founders, adding to her growing list of first-term scandals.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted unanimously Friday to investigate former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s travel.

Sam Bankman-Fried used money he stole from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange to make more than $100 million in political campaign contributions before the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, federal prosecutors said on Monday.

Gov. Tina Kotek has previously denied the claim that she fired former OLCC Director Steve Marks earlier this year at the behest of a controversial cannabis entrepreneur.

The decision by U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday to drop a campaign finance charge against Sam Bankman-Fried may keep his trial focused on what the government considers his main crime: stealing billions of dollars from cryptocurrency customers at his now-bankrupt FTX exchange.

Mr. Bankman-Fried’s legal team had argued that the United States mishandled the process of extraditing him from the Bahamas.