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: Office of Campaign and Political Finance
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…
How Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance and Paul Craney Screwed Ryan Fattman
Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance’s Paul Craney wrote what may seem to be a defense of Senator Ryan Fattman from an Office of Campaign and Political Finance investigation. It’s more a guilt letter because, you see, it is Mass Fiscal itself that has screwed Senator Fattman. Mr. Craney’s piece in Commonwealth Magazine is titled Fattman Case Deserves…