Open government group finds little influence of campaign money on stimulus contracts
November 5, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, News & Opinion, Uncategorized
The National Institute on Money in State Politics checked campaign contributions against awards for stimulus contracts and found that only 3.2 percent of contract recipients donated to state political campaigns. -DB
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
November 5, 2009
By Ingrid Drake A few months ago, POGO blogged about our concerns that many state and local governments with laws limiting contractors’ campaign contributions (meant to reduce the influence of private interests in the public contracting process) are facing obstacles to enforcing these “pay-to-play” laws on stimulus-funded contracts.
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
November 5, 2009
By Ingrid Drake A few months ago, POGO blogged about our concerns that many state and local governments with laws limiting contractors’ campaign contributions (meant to reduce the influence of private interests in the public contracting process) are facing obstacles to enforcing these “pay-to-play” laws on stimulus-funded contracts.
While none of those obstacles have been removed, the nonprofit, nonpartisan National Institute on Money in State Politics just released an analysis that found little influence of campaign contributions on stimulus contracts. By mashing Recovery.gov data with the Institute’s database of state-level political contributions, it found that “only 3.2 percent of the 3,285 recipients of ARRA-related contracts were also donors to state-level political campaigns during the 2008 and 2009 election cycles.”
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