Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Reaped $2.6M in Campaign Cash From 557 State Vendors Who Pocketed $4.4B
5th November 2018
There is no state law against this at present, and I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for a one-party state to write one that forbids soliciting campaign cash from state vendors. Chicago politicians may consider themselves experts at extorting cash for pay to play, but Oregon politicians are at the very least their equals. Perhaps extortion might be too harsh a description. Taxpayers are paying for these state vendor contracts, so money laundering might be a kinder description.
Willie Brown was the master of this in California, but every Democrat politician probably has this as a basic skill.