| A recent article in the AJC highlighted a previously unpublicized PAC that operates out of Speaker Richardson's law firm, called the MMV Alliance Fund. The fund allows the Speaker to accept large donations that would otherwise be illegal under campaign finance laws. Last year's ethics bill originally contained bans on gifts from lobbyists to legislators as well as enforcement measures on ethical behavior of public officials. But both of these were removed from the bill - at the direction of Speaker Richardson. They got it half right. The bill effectively held lobbyists more accountable, but not legislators. |
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