Montgomery – Alabama legislators again claim overwhelming support for an election reform bill that would ban the practice of hiding the source of campaign donations by transferring them from one political action committee to another.
In an Associated Press survey of legislators, 89 percent of House members said they support the ban on PAC-to-PAC transfers, three percent said they opposed it and eight percent were undecided.
The bill has passed the House by large margins and died in the Senate without coming up for a vote for the past six years.
But 89 percent of senators responding to the AP survey said they support banning PAC-to-PAC transfers, while 11 percent said they were undecided.
Responding to the survey were 72 percent of House members and 80 percent of senators.
The legislation's sponsor, Rep. Jeff McLaughlin of Guntersville, says he hopes 89 percent means "genuine interest in passing it."
McLaughlin says he expects his bill to be one of the first considered in the House after the Legislature begins its 2008 regular session on Feb. 5th.
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