Wednesday, December 02, 2015

OP-ED: The Regulatory Creep of Grassroots Lobbying Public Disclosure Regimes | Nonprofit Quarterly

OP-ED: The Regulatory Creep of Grassroots Lobbying Public Disclosure Regimes | Nonprofit Quarterly: "Requiring public disclosure of an organization’s grassroots lobbying efforts may not be a new concept, but San Francisco’s recently adopted Proposition C is a reminder of the regulatory creep of lobbying disclosure regimes on nonprofit organizations across the nation. San Francisco is the latest of many jurisdictions demanding public disclosure of grassroots lobbying campaigns, and, despite the protestations of nonprofit organizations, these jurisdictions are routinely demanding disclosure regardless of the speakers’ means, methods, or modi operandi. In its haste to uncover the interests behind astroturf campaigns and to force disclosure on anyone who amplifies their voice with money’s assistance, government instead creates minefields of regulatory traps for the unwary and provides the public with almost uniformly useless information."



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