Council Moving Forward With Bills to Ban Anonymous Campaign Mailers

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Jill Colvin

The City Council is moving forward with a package of legislation that would ban anonymous campaign mailers and force Super PAC-like groups to list their top donors in print.

The bills, sponsored by Councilmen Brad Lander and Dan Gardonick, will get their first hearing this afternoon. They follow a heated election season that saw a spate of anonymous attack mailers that often included inaccurate and incendiary material, especially at the City Council level.

Mr. Garodnick said his bill, which would require all communications to include information about the candidate or committee that paid for them, was aimed at filing what he described as “a glaring hole” in city regulation.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/04/council-moving-forward-with-bills-to-ban-anonymous-campaign-mailers/#ixzz2zubzT9gA