A committee backing Lightfoot is taking money from city contractors while others backing García and Vallas are taking dark money where contributors aren't disclosed.
. “Brandon Johnson wants to defund the police,” Lightfoot’s website says, and his “tax plan would hit the middle class.” Lightfoot’s website suggests that message should be targeted toward “Black frequent municipal primary voters.”
“These practices apply equally to all campaigns as a result of the Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling,” a statement from Vallas’ campaign said. “Paul Vallas would support small donor public funding for campaigns and he will engage in those conversations, but under current political realities, it would be imprudent.”Lightfoot’s campaign did not address questions about redboxing, but said the campaign “adheres fully to all applicable campaign finance laws and rules.
The infusion of dark money donations and so-called independent expenditures are problematic, but part and parcel of weak campaign finance laws, said Alisa Kaplan, executive director of the political transparency group Reform for Illinois. Hiding donors allows political committees to avoid scrutiny of the political interests backing a candidate, potentially sparing the contributors and the committee from hard questions about their interest in helping elect public officials.
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