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Ballot measure aims to ban corporate campaign contributions
Supporters say the measure would curb dark money by banning corporate independent expenditures while leaving PACs, unions and individual donations intact.
By JULIA SHUMWAYOf the Oregon Capital Chronicle Supporters of campaign contribution limits and transparency who have long been stymied at the Oregon Legislature will look to voters to block businesses, unions and other organizations from spending to influence elections. The proposed 2028 constitutional amendment, which supporters filed Wednesday, is a near carbon copy of a Hawaii law that passed earlier this year and a ballot measure Montana vot…