CA’s Paycheck Deception Ballot Measure Includes a “Giant Loophole to Allow for Unlimited Corporate

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CA’s Paycheck Deception Ballot Measure Includes a “Giant Loophole to Allow for Unlimited Corporate Spending on Campaigns”

The misleadingly titled “Stop Special Interest Money Now” Act was picked apart in this Friday’s edition of the San Jose Mercury News. In an op-ed regarding California’s latest paycheck deception bill, Ron Lind writes:

The measure is a wolf in sheep’s clothing designed to fool voters into approving a corporate power grab that will lead to even more corporate influence over our political system. What the backers won’t say publicly is that they’ve written a giant loophole to allow for unlimited corporate spending on campaigns while furthering their real agenda of silencing the voices of middle-class workers and their unions.

Here’s how the scheme works: The measure says it will stop corporations and unions from collecting political funds through payroll deductions — but corporations almost never use payroll deductions to collect funds to support or oppose candidates or ballot measures; they use their massive corporate profits.

The very language on the measure’s summary states: Other political expenditures remain unrestricted, including corporate expenditures from available resources not limited by payroll deduction prohibition.