OUTSIDE PACS AND UNIONS are funneling money into Boston at a rate that far outpaces anything seen nationally in other recent big-city mayoral races. The mayor’s contest is awash with semi-regulated campaign funds – money that doesn’t carry the fundraising limits and disclosure requirements political candidates have to comply with.
Super PACs and labor unions have upended Boston’s mayoral race, turning what was a relatively even spending contest between Rep. Marty Walsh and City Councilor John Connolly into a tremendously lopsided affair: An unprecedented amount of outside money has saturated Boston’s mayoral race, and more than $4 out of every $5 is lining up behind Walsh.
Boston, supposedly the Athens of America, has become nation’s dark money capital.
we know exactly where the money is coming from.
Like here.
This doesn’t bother me and never has because the identities of the outside money is known. It is independent money and it is illegal for campaign to even talk to the people behind the outside money.
Yes donors aren’t identified til later. I don’t like that.
But dark money is a misleading characterization.
“Our allies are facing competition in their effort to buy an election!”
a little misleading? There is an equal gap between every million dollars except for the first million which is smaller… this makes the extra money spent by Walsh seem like it is worth more than it really is