Roll Call: Campaign Legal Center Files Complaint Against Pro-Doug Jones Super PAC

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The Campaign Legal Center is accusing Highway 31 of not disclosing Senate Majority PAC’s backing and misrepresenting its donors.

Brendan Fischer, director of federal and FEC reform at the center, accused Democrats of hypocrisy for saying they support transparency but then pushing new legal theories to justify secret spending.

“Despite laws requiring that super PACs disclose their donors, Alabama voters went to the polls on election day without knowing who was backing Highway 31,” Fischer said. “This secrecy scheme cooked up by Highway 31 and its backers threatens to create a new disclosure loophole that will be exploited by billionaires and operatives supporting both parties, unless the FEC does its job and enforces our disclosure laws.”

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