The Boston Globe’s Joan Vennochi has a must-read column today, Voters deserve guidance on campaign finance allegations: The Office of Campaign and Political Finance deliberately puts off reaching any resolution regarding specific complaints until after an election takes place. That needs to change. Ms. Vennochi is right: OCPF needs to act when it can inform…
Category: Josh Kraft
Boston Grassroots Leaders Demand Investigation of Josh Kraft Campaign and SuperPAC
Grassroots leaders of Boston’s Democratic ward committees have filed a request with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance to “open an immediate investigation into troubling evidence of illegal campaign spending and coordination between the Josh Kraft for Mayor campaign and the Your City, Your Future Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee, which has already spent…
The Meaning of Josh Kraft’s “Thanks Dad”* Campaign
Last week the Boston Globe reported that the Josh Kraft-supporting SuperPAC Your City, Your Future will spend $2.4 million in the coming weeks to attack Mayor Michelle Wu. Globe columnist Adrian Walker registered his disapproval but also concluded that SuperPAC spending is “a standard feature of politics.” That assumes the public has become pacified by…