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June 03, 2021
This week in money-in-politics

Preeminent money in politics watchdogs unite to form OpenSecrets

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The nation’s two leading money-in-politics data organizations have joined forces to help Americans hold their leaders accountable at the federal and state levels, they said today.

The combined organization, OpenSecrets, merges the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and the National Institute on Money in Politics (NIMP), each leading entities for three decades. The merger will provide a new one-stop shop for integrated federal, state and local data on campaign finance, lobbying and more, that is both unprecedented and easy to use.

“This merger brings together decades of expertise, massive data sets, and the kind of analysis that researchers, journalists, advocates and individuals rely on to understand the influence of spending on politics,” said OpenSecrets Executive Director Sheila Krumholz, who previously led CRP. “At a time when our country is being tested, this is a good day for democracy.”

“Transparency fuels the accountability that’s necessary to ensure the healthy evolution of our fragile democracy,” said OpenSecrets Executive Advisor Edwin Bender, who previously led NIMP. “Combining our work into a singularly robust and comprehensive tool will be invaluable for helping all of us take the measure of who our elected officials truly represent.”

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** New bill aims to shut the FARA revolving door
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Former government officials would be prohibited from representing foreign corporations and governments as lobbyists under new bipartisan legislation introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine). The ‘‘Congressional and Executive Foreign Lobbying Ban Act’’ seeks to prohibit federally elected lawmakers and senior-level government appointees from registering as lobbyists for foreign agents after they leave the government.
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** Super PACS and candidates spend big in upcoming NYC mayoral primaries
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With the 2021 New York City Democratic primary for mayor less than a month away, candidates have already spent over $33 million with $32 million left to spend. Super PACs have also already spent nearly $16 million through mid-May in support of New York City mayoral candidates despite the city implementing sweeping campaign finance reforms aiming to minimize money-in-politics influence.
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** How to cite the new OpenSecrets

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June 14 at 11:00 a.m. ET

Join panelists A’shanti F. Gholar, Emerge; Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University (CAWP); Jennifer Pierotti Lim, Republican Women for Progress; Mariel Padilla, the 19th News; and OpenSecrets’ Sarah Bryner, for an online discussion on the glass ceiling in US electoral politics.
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Nuha is a rising senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pursuing a degree in English. Alongside her work at OpenSecrets, she also is a Campus Consortium International Reporting Fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Maggie is a rising junior at Syracuse University studying magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse School for Public Communications. Prior to her time at OpenSecrets, she worked as an assistant news editor at The Daily Orange, SU’s independent student newspaper, where she covered stories on campus as well as in the greater city of Syracuse.

OpenSecrets in the News

See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:

* ** Big Pharma lobbyists launch campaign against Biden over Covid vaccine patent waiver (CNBC) ([link removed])
The lobbying group that represents several top pharmaceutical companies last month quietly launched a campaign against President Joe Biden’s decision to support waiving intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines.

* ** 2 Nonprofits That Track Money in Politics Are Merging (Maryland Matters) ([link removed])
In 2021 through mid-May, about 24% of disclosure resolutions concerning political spending and lobbying put before shareholders of U.S. companies won majority support, a far higher proportion than in the equivalent period of any year going back to 2014.

* ** Black Women Making History: Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation (Ms. Magazine) ([link removed])
"Democratic women candidates are less likely than Democratic men to self-finance their campaigns. Thirteen percent of Democratic women’s total receipts are a result of self-financing, compared with 19 percent for Democratic men. (The proportion of funds from self-financing is similar for Republican women and men — about 20 percent.)"

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