MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold says if he’s elected to the Senate this fall, he wants to make more changes to campaign finance laws. In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the Democrat said he wants nonprofit groups involved in the elections to have to disclose their donors.
Feingold said he has several ideas that would “add teeth to laws on coordination between campaigns and third party organizations.” He says 501(c)(3) non-profit groups that run campaign ads should have to tell everyone who funds them.
Feingold teamed with Republican Senator John McCain to overhaul campaign finance laws before Senator Ron Johnson bounced him from office in 2010. Parts of the McCain-Feingold law were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling. The decision lifted almost all restrictions on union and corporate donations. Feingold says he believes Citizens United will eventually be overturned.
The MetroSource News Wire contributed to this report.
