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TexasTowelie

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Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:57 AM Dec 2017

Denver gets sued over its new disclosure requirement for nonprofits

Denver’s attempt to rein in the “dark money” that drives, and sometimes distorts, a lot of campaign messaging has landed the city in court. A lawsuit filed in Denver District Court Wednesday by a public-interest litigation foundation out of Arizona — the libertarian-leaning, Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute — contends that provisions of the campaign-reform ordinance enacted by the Denver City Council in September are unconstitutional.

The suit was filed on behalf of two political-advocacy nonprofits that are a familiar presence on Colorado’s political right — the Colorado Union of Taxpayers Foundation and the TABOR Committee.

The new Denver campaign law, which has assorted other components not challenged by the suit, takes effect in January.

Calling the targeted provisions of the new law “unfair and unconstitutional,” a Goldwater press statement Wednesday says the measure, “requires nonprofits to give the government a list of their donors — including their occupations and employers — any time those groups spend as little as $500 communicating with voters about city ballot measures.” In other words, it effectively turns advocacy groups like the two plaintiffs into political or issue committees regulated by campaign laws.

Read more: https://coloradopolitics.com/denver-gets-sued-new-disclosure-requirement-nonprofits/

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Denver gets sued over its new disclosure requirement for nonprofits (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2017 OP
Libertarians can talk Freedom all they want DonCoquixote Dec 2017 #1

DonCoquixote

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1. Libertarians can talk Freedom all they want
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 05:56 AM
Dec 2017

But whether out of honest naivete, or more likely, greed, they want to ensure that the law is toothless against the robber barons who will anythign they want to, to whoever they want to. The sincere libertarians are just too arrogant to realize they are next.

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