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Mountain West Investment Corporation gives $125,000 to conservative Salem PAC

Back in March I wrote about how the Chamber of Commerce appeared to be trying to hide a $25,000 contribution from Mountain West Investment Corporation, whose president is Larry Tokarski.  (See Salem Chamber of Commerce apparently trying to hide $25,000 in PAC money.) Now Mountain West Investment Corporation is making campaign contributions in an indirect way by funneling five times as much money through a different political action committee. On August 26th, Mountain West Investment Corporation gave $125,000 to the Jobs PAC. Just two days prior, the Jobs PAC gave $2,500 to Republican Danielle Bethell’s campaign for Marion County Commissioner. On…
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Posted inChuck Bennett Creekside Golf Course Political donations

Follow the money: Creekside Golf Course “IrriGate” scandal

In Salem these days, as elsewhere in the U.S., corporate fat cats don't have to carry around bags of cash to surreptitiously hand over to compliant politicians when they want a favor done for them.  No, our campaign finance systems have gotten so screwed up, rich political donors can do their "bought and paid for" thing right out in the open, pretty much. Their money buys access to politicians, greasing the skids for favorable votes that can't be directly connected to the cash they donated to a campaign fund. Case in point: Salem's Creekside Golf Course water rate reduction brouhaha.…
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