The basics: Limits contributions to $500 per individual, $5,000 loan balance from candidate, with no limits from small donor committees (which are capped at $100 per individual).<\/p>\n
I usually scan the number of arguments in favor and opposition to these measures. There are 18 arguments in favor, and only 5 in opposition. Oddly, both sides cited Michael Cohen paying off Stormy Daniel’s to help the current president in the 2016 election. Granted, two of the arguments in opposition are classic reductio ad absurdum<\/em> arguments. Other arguments in opposition assert that money is speech which is a false proposition to begin with.<\/p>\n In principle we should have locally-funded small scale campaigns and debates where actual ideas can be discussed. We don’t live in anything resembling an ideal democracy. Measures like 26-200 attempt to get more people involved, and that’s a good thing in my book. The Small Donor Committees are designed to encourage grassroots organizations. There is a clause that, if I understand it correctly, still caps an entities total expenditure to $750, so Ms. Mega Rich Donor can’t create 50 SDCs and flood them with $100 each and have them all support a candidate. I may be wrong on these details.<\/p>\n The trick to all of this is the City Auditor. If the Auditor decides not to investigate fraud, I don’t know how the law could be enforced.<\/p>\n Several arguments in favor argue that Oregon allows unlimited PAC-to-PAC transfers, which can be used to hide the source of funding. There’s nothing in the ballot title that tells me this kind of shenanigans would be outlawed.<\/p>\n Ultimately these measures attempt to drive candidates in front of the voters and turn their audience from a\u00a0 few billionaires to as many people as possible. I can support that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The basics: Limits contributions to $500 per individual, $5,000 loan balance from candidate, with no limits from small donor committees (which are capped at $100 per individual). I usually scan the number of arguments in favor and opposition to these measures. There are 18 arguments in favor, and only 5 in opposition. Oddly, both sides … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[10,9,12,11],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-politics-are-local","tag-2018-elections","tag-city-of-portland","tag-portland-measure-26-200","tag-taxes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuarenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}