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Senate Candidates Want Groups to Disclose Donors
(IRN)-Both major party candidates for U.S. Senate say outside groups that run political ads should have to disclose their donors.

U.S. Representative Mark Kirk, the Republican candidate for Senate, has benefited from at least $1.2 million worth of ads attacking Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Kirk says he's for clean campaign financing, and was for the McCain-Feingold campaign limits. At this point, he says the outside groups should have to disclose their donors. That's in addition to other reforms, such as requiring candidates to disclose donations to their campaign funds within 24 hours.

The sponsor of many of the anti-Giannoulias ads is a group called Crossroads GPS, which will not reveal its donors. Kirk would not promise to ask them to disclose or stop running ads.

Giannoulias says the anonymous ads are having a dangerous impact on the future of our democracy. He says he's for a constitutional amendment to ban corporate contributions to outside groups that influence elections. Such contributions were legalized this year by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case.

(Illinois Radio Network)
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