Category Archives: In the News

Ballard Spahr: Corporate Political Disclosure Rankings Show ‘Dramatic Gap’ in Transparency Between Largest and Smaller Companies

The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index revealed a “dramatic gap” in spending.

MarketWatch: Lindsey Graham’s corporate donors find themselves linked to his controversial abortion bill.

Why ‘everyone’s playing gotcha with political spending.’

Financial Times: Berkshire and Tesla resist making political spending disclosures

CME Group also an outlier as growing number of S&P 500 companies publish more information

NYTimes DealBook: Lifting the curtain on political donations

In the wake of the 2020 presidential election and riot at the Capitol, corporate giants have looked more closely at their political contributions and become more transparent about where the money goes.

Fast Company: Corporate America has long embraced ‘both sides’ political spending. That has to stop

STAT: ‘Window dressing’: Eli Lilly’s after-the-fact statement on Indiana’s abortion law sends a disingenuous message

OpenSecrets: Corporate donations to GOP political groups boosted candidates behind anti-abortion rights laws in the states

LA Times – Commentary: Corporations supporting abortion rights? Their political donations tell a different story

OpenSecrets: Corporate PACs contributed over a million dollars to lawmakers who opposed abortion rights bill