A political committee with ties to Gov. Rendell has agreed to pay $15,750 in fines to the Philadelphia Board of Ethics to settle a lawsuit, according to reporter Marcia Gelbart. By paying the fines, the Pennsylvanians for Better Leadership PAC admitted it violated the city's campaign finance rules 20 times.
From the article:
Richard Glazer, the ethics board's chairman, called the settlement "another chapter in the continuing saga of business as usual with no sincere effort at compliance."
Glazer said during yesterday's monthly Ethics Board meeting that "there is something not quite right about a system that essentially invites the well-financed and powerful, in this case Gov. Rendell, to direct contributions to city candidates through a PAC without public disclosure. To do this with impunity tends to undermine the ability to follow the political money through the system and the transformational goal of transparency."
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Originally posted at TONY PHYRILLAS
