This Web Site Allows Political Donors to Give Money Based on How Lawmakers Vote. Just Don’t Call it Bribery.
via the Washington Post
Jonathan Zucker and Joshua Tauberer have developed a website where political donors can give money to the campaigns of sitting lawmakers or their future reelection challengers based solely on how those lawmakers vote on legislation.
Just don’t confuse it with “bribery,” they say.
“On a first read, what we’re talking about kind of looks problematic,” Zucker admits.
Indeed, federal law bars public officials from accepting money or goods in connection with a specific action that they took or have been asked to take. But that’s not how the pair’s start-up website, called If.Then.Fund, actually works, the co-founders said.
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