Political Action Committee (PAC)
A Kansas Political Action Committee (PAC) files political money reports on statewide activities with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, but a PAC reduces to a “Political Committee” for local issues within a county. Kansas Law has very weak reporting requirements for such local committees.
These weak laws are why the public knows little about the $800,000 [...]
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Kansas law is quite peculiar in letting out-of-state PACs have fewer reporting requirements than in-state PACs. Out-of-state groups are allowed to spend huge amounts on Kansas politics and not have their “verified statements” shown online. There is no online list of out-of-state PACs that get to hide their political participation in Kansas’ elections. As [...]
Continue reading about Over $500,000 missing from online PAC reports in Kansas
The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission publishes a list of “Top 20″ Kansas Political Action Committees (PACs) every year, but this list is computed only using PAC contributions to candidates. Why are PACs that raise a lot of money, spend a lot of money, or have a lot money in the bank not in the [...]
Continue reading about Ethics Commission’s “Top 20″ PAC list missing 10 PACs?
Starting in early 2006 the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission published online “all” campaign finance reports for Kansas Political Action Committees (PACs) and political candidates — these reports are now free for the public to view.
These new online reports are welcome sunshine on political money since before that campaign finance reports had to be purchased [...]
Why are missing, large money transfers between a Kansas PAC and a federal 527 PAC from 2006 ignored by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission? Are a missing $25,000 transfer and two $15,625 transfers big enough to trigger the need for an “errors and omissions” notification, and the need for an updated PAC report? [...]
Continue reading about Kansas Ethics Commission ignores missing $25,000 payment by PAC?
Mr. Bruce McKinney was the Chair/Treasurer of a PAC, Wichita Voters for Truth, that sent out a hit piece in Wichita in Nov 2006 and then never filed a Jan 2007 report with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. The Ethics Commission cannot find this guy, but newspapers can find him and then quote [...]
The Wichita Voters for Truth PAC sent out this hit piece against State Rep candidate Jan Beemer in the Nov 2006 election, but never filed its Jan 2007 PAC report with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission explaining how much money was raised and spent on that mailing. Bruce McKinney from Wichita was the [...]
[Updated] Gov. Sebelius’ reception for Dr. George Tiller at the Governor’s mansion while Tiller was under criminal investigation has been in the news for the past several days. News reports today focused on a late reimbursement to the State of Kansas for the event. Gov. Sebelius did not report auction items she donated [...]
