What hath Stacey Campfield wrought?
After Campfield poked the black caucus with a stick, look what comes running out:
The state’s caucus of African-American lawmakers receives thousands of dollars in contributions without any requirement to disclose the transactions, the group’s leaders acknowledged yesterday.
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The dispute comes at a time when many Tennesseans are calling for stronger ethics laws for legislators, including better reporting of the flow of money to Capitol Hill.
The Legislature’s Black Caucus has not existed as a nonprofit corporation for 20 years, raising an array of questions that the organization’s chairman declined to answer Wednesday.
Records at the secretary of state’s office show the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators had its corporate charter revoked in 1985 for failure to file required reports.
A document to re-establish the caucus as a legal entity was filed Tuesday, listing Allyson Sneed, executive secretary to caucus Chairman Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, as the incorporator.
So, let’s review: The Black Caucus has been illegally operating as a non-profit since 1985. And they would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that meddling Campfield. Now, they are scrambling to comply with the law.
October 7th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
When this first broke, wasn’t it put forth that the Caucus actually threw the story out there to mess with Campfield?
October 7th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Yeah, it was. Campfield says his inquiry was months ago yet the press recently picked up on it due to some one at the BC.
October 7th, 2005 at 2:36 pm
If the law was broken, shouldn’t someone go to jail? Or at least be fined?
February 19th, 2007 at 12:00 am
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