Initiative Petition 9
GET BIG MONEY OUT OF OREGON POLITICS
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Honest Elections Oregon [email protected]
Get IP 9 onto November 2024 ballots!
Limit campaign money, make political spenders
name the real money sources in their ads.
Limit campaign money, make political spenders
name the real money sources in their ads.
In 2020, Oregon voters (78% to 22%) called on our Legislature to adopt campaign contributions limits and show voters where political money is really coming from. They have failed. So We the People must act.
INITIATIVE PETITION 9 WILL:
Shine a Light on Dark Money
Shine a Light on Dark Money
LIST the biggest 4 funders in campaign ads, including dark money sources
REVEAL true original sources behind big campaign spenders and contributors
Get FASTER public disclosure, Big contributions and independent expenditures
MORE campaign money source information in printed and online Voters' Pamphlets
Limit Money into Candidate Campaigns
Individuals and PACs can give up to:
- $2,000 for statewide office (Gov, SoS, AG, Treasurer, Labor Commissioner)
- $1,000 for any other state office
- $500 for any local government office
For-profit corporations can give nothing
Small Donor Committees, funded only by contributions of $250 or less per year from individuals, can give candidates:
- $20,000 for statewide office
- $10,000 for any other state office
- $5,000 for any local government office
No person or group may controlling multiple entities to increase their allowable contributions.
Make Competition More Fair by banning candidates from carrying over money from one election to another.
And More
Removes exception in Oregon bribery law that legalizes bribery with campaign contributions
Increase penalties for campaign finance violations
Enforce campaign finance violations with judicial review, not partisan elected official s deciding "no violation" or not investigating at all.