Ballot initiative would bar corporations from political donations in Montana, undo ‘Citizens United’

As spending in politics has continued to balloon, leaders in Montana, spurred on by former Commissioner of Political Practice Jeff Mangan, have kicked off an initiative to put a new idea forward for curbing the influence of dark money in politics. Dark money is a term used where corporations or organizations don’t have to disclose their donors or their gifted amounts, making it nearly impossible to tell who is involved in some political campaigns.

The idea, called the “Transparent Election Initiative,” would be a state constitutional amendment that would simply prohibit corporations from making political campaign donations, using the state’s power to control how corporations operate in the state.

Montana’s Transparent Election Initiative