Helena, Mont. – The former heads of state gathered to discuss a plan that would eliminate business spending and dark money from local politics on Wednesday morning.
During the virtual meeting, the former commissioner for political practices, Jeff Mangan, presented the Montana plan, which aims to add transparency to the local elections and to cancel the united citizens.
If it is approved, the State would modify its constitution to prevent the expenses of companies and anonymous in local policy.
Former Governor Marc Racicot and former American senator Jon Test both attended the meeting to express their support for plan, saying that business spending is a problem that must be resolved.
“All the money of the company has done is to create more division. It pushes people on the left and more right, and it is not good for democracy,” said test. “So what I would tell you is that Democrats probably don’t like it, some of them. The Republicans, probably some of them don’t like it. But the truth is that voters deserve that it happens.”
“I think it will greatly help clean the system,” said Racicot. “There are still areas where we could need improvement and a little change over time, but it is a first step forward very, very important and very important.”
To make the plan a reality, Mangan says that he understands that the money will have to be collected and spent. However, when he says that he does not know how much money they will need for the moment, he plans to make the process of collection and expenditure of transparent money.
“I want this to be transparent, even if under the current law, we can collect funds and not provide transparency to what this money is and which gives money to the campaign or to C4,” said Mangan. “We are going to make it all public, fully transparent.”
The Montana plan will take place in front of the voters during the 2026 elections.
For more information on the initiative, click here.
