Hennepin County has a rule that if any group spends more than $100 you
must register as a PAC. Park Reform and People for I. Parks are both
registered on the Hennepin County website(
http://www.co.hennepin.mn.us and go into campaign finance). You can
see where donations come from and who is in charge etc.. for free.
The same is true for all candidates. You can look up the individual
candidates on the website as well. Any donation over $100 must be
itemized and if you look at the itemized donations to Park Reform on
their pre-primary report you will see big as life that I gave $101, and
no I am not a developer, just a housewife with a part time job at
Office Max. You can also see all of the PACs that have donated to
various campaigns and if you want you can go to the state campaign
finance board website http://www.cfboard.state.mn.us and see just who
lobbies for the pacs etc... I will give you fair warning that you
might find yourself praying for more campaign finance reform after
doing this.
Liz Wielinski
Columbia Park
co-founder of Minneapolis Park Watch
Not a PAC but a group of citizen volunteers
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