This’ll keep us busy at the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. Elections are becoming more expensive, untraceable spending is growing and it’s our job to follow this money and track its influence.

To continue this work, we need your support.
On Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting the Michigan Campaign Finance Network’s efforts to track political money in our state. This week, your donations will be doubled, up to the first $5,000, thanks to a matching grant from a generous supporter.

We rely on grassroots donors like you to ensure MCFN can continue to report on money’s influence in our political system. Organizations trying to sway the vote without disclosing the source of their funding have redoubled their efforts and we have to keep up.

If you’ve already given to MCFN this year, we thank you. And we’ll keep working to follow the money in Michigan politics in 2020!

Thanks,

Simon D. Schuster
Executive Director
Michigan Campaign Finance Network

P.S. We disclose our donors. Contributors donating more than $200 will have their names listed on MCFN’s website.
 

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Our Board Of Directors

- Lynn Jondahl, board chair: former Michigan state representative, serving from 1973 to 1994
- Patricia Donath, board vice chair: past president of the League of Women Voters of Michigan
- Charlie Cavell, founder of the nonprofit The Pay It Forward Initiative who's worked in workforce development and to alleviate the causes of poverty
- John Chamberlin, professor emeritus of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- Dan DeGrow, former superintendent of St. Clair County RESA; former Michigan state senator, serving from 1983 to 2002; and former Michigan state representative, serving from 1981 to 1982
- Gary Heinlein, a longtime journalist who covered Michigan state government and politics for The Detroit News for two decades
- John M. Koval, retired state economist and senior activist
- Ellen Cogen Lipton, an attorney and a former Michigan state representative, serving from 2009 to 2014
- John P. Mayer, former state and federal court administrator
John J. H. Schwarz, physician; former Michigan state senator, serving from 1987 to 2002; and former congressman, serving from 2005 to 2007
- Alma Wheeler Smith, former Michigan state senator, serving from 1995 to 2002; and former Michigan state representative, serving from 2005 to 2010
- Chris Ward, former Michigan state representative, serving from 2003 to 2008
 

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