A new coalition concerned about money’s growing influence on New Mexico politics is urging state lawmakers to consider legislation this January that would ban corporations from political spending.
The newly formed group, Money Out of Politics New Mexico, announced Thursday that it was launching a campaign modeled after similar efforts in Montana and Hawaii. Chair Natalie Wright Curley told Source NM that eliminating corporate and “dark” money from politics is a key step in returning democracy to the hands of regular people instead of the wealthy.
The “Corporate Money Out of Politics Act” would revoke corporations’ power to
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