Institute on Money in State Politics
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The Institute on Money in State Politics was launched as a national organization in 1999, responding to the demand for campaign finance information not only on the national level but also state and local levels.
Background
Mission
The Institute describes itself as the only nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created to uncover the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states. "We encourage transparency and promote independent investigation of state-level campaign contributions by journalists, academic researchers, public-interest groups, government agencies, policymakers, students and the public at large."
The verifiable campaign-finance database and analyses are available on their website FollowTheMoney.org.[1]
Founding
The Institute was launched as a national organization in 1999, expanding on regional efforts that had gathered campaign-finance data in three sections of the country. Three groups joined forces to launch the Institute as a comprehensive 50-state program: Western States Center in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest, Northeast Citizen Action Resource Center in New England and New York, and Democracy South in the South and Southeast.
While comprehensive information on campaign finances for federal candidates was made available through the Federal Election Commission, no such information existed for state-level candidates, political party committees or ballot measure committees.[2]
