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Friday, June 18, 2004
Voters must know money sources
It's disquieting to learn that all three of the state's major gubernatorial candidates have lagged in reporting important details about contributions to their campaign chests. The full, accurate and timely disclosure of campaign finances will provide voters measure of their honesty and efficiency as executives.
A story by Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Angela Galloway yesterday shows that Republican Dino Rossi and Democrats Christine Gregoire and Ron Sims have yet to report required information on the occupations or employers of donors who've given hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Voters deserve to know how much money political candidates are getting and from whom. That's why candidates' reports to the Public Disclosure Commission are supposed to include the donors' occupations and employers.
Voters may find it important that out-of-state donors account for more than a quarter of the contributions to the Gregoire and Sims campaigns so far; they make up only a pittance of those to Rossi. Also, voters may well find it valuable to know that lawyers, then retirees, rank as the top individual contributors to the Gregoire and Sims campaigns, and that retirees rank first among Rossi contributors. It's noteworthy, too, that those whose employment information is not identified are the second-biggest source of contributions for Rossi and Sims.
Gregoire, Rossi and Sims must demand their campaigns provide full and timely finance disclosure.
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