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Investigation of Developer Campaign Donations

Investigation of Developer Campaign Donations

Current municipal campaign finance rules mean that individual and corporate donors have a limit to how much they can donate to candidates in a given municipal election. To avoid this rule big donors have family and employees donate, and then reimburse them later. This does not violate any election campaign rules, but it is ethically dubious. There is a correlation between developer donations and how councillors voted on issues that those donors had an interest in. Check out the findings to learn more.