State Rep. Sam Whitson

28 Apr, 2022

Legislature invigorates campaign finance reporting, ethics rules

By |2022-04-29T10:23:03-05:00April 28, 2022|Categories: Legislature, Open Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

The Legislature passed comprehensive legislation closing several loopholes and adding more transparency and accountability to campaign finance reporting and ethics measures Thursday. House Speaker Cameron Sexton describes the bill as bringing money flows "from the dark into the light." One provision of the bill requires nonprofits organized under IRS code 501(c)(4), (5) and (6) to report expenditures related to a candidate during election periods, causing pushback from such groups, but the bill goes much farther than this one change.

25 Apr, 2022

Lawmakers move closer to increasing campaign finance transparency

By |2022-04-26T10:38:41-05:00April 25, 2022|Categories: Legislature|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

A bill that would create big changes to Tennessee's campaign finance law is still on the table though differences between the House and Senate versions must be resolved before final passage.

16 Nov, 2018

Memphis considers using code names for companies getting economic development incentives

By |2018-11-16T11:47:08-06:00November 16, 2018|Categories: Tennessee Coalition for Open Government|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

The Economic and Development Growth Engine Board for Memphis (EDGE) is seeking at Attorney General's opinion on whether it can use code names to keep secret from the public the identity of companies before it votes to award the companies government cash grants and other economic development incentives. Al Bright chairman of the Memphis Economic Development and Growth Engine, said if using code names for companies when voting on cash grants and incentives instead of publicly disclosing identities would encourage more businesses to come to Memphis, "by all means, we need to do it." The attorney for the board told the Commercial Appeal (Companies seeking tax breaks from [...]

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