Corporate funding has contributed to the degrading of our democracy. In many cases it conflicts with professed company stances, eroding public support for business.
| Updated: Jan. 27, 2021, 12:55 a.m.
A Democratic state lawmaker is launching an impeachment probe targeting Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes over his ties to a GOP attorneys general association an organization that encouraged people to rally at the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt.
Rep. Andrew Stoddard is moving forward with the effort to impeach Reyes because of the attorney general’s “work to undermine our election process and results, and his regular failure to represent his client, the state.” He also wrote that he wanted more information about how the Republican Attorneys General Association was involved in “the domestic terror attack on our Nation’s Capitol.”
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Since the riot at the U.S. Capitol, several major corporations including Dow, Walmart and JPMorgan Chase have won praise for restricting campaign contributions from their affiliated political action committees or PACs.
This is an admirable action, but it is largely symbolic.
As a scholar of corporate political activity, I find it difficult to credit companies much for this act. That’s because corporate PACs play an increasingly minimal role in our political system. There are far more important ways in which the disclosure of ties between companies and politicians needs strengthening.