Good governance groups to take campaign finance to ballot if lawmakers adopt ‘loopholes’

Good governance groups to take campaign finance to ballot if lawmakers adopt ‘loopholes’

Tobias Read, Oregon's secretary of state, speaks at the Oregon Democratic Party election fete in Portland on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Read has told the Legislature he needs them to provide the extended deadlines or money needed to ensure a smooth rollout of the state's 2024 campaign finance law, but a proposal to do so has angered good government groups that say it in fact neutralizes the contribution limits. (Rian Dundon/Oregon Capital Chronicle)…