California Catholic News: A May 27 NRLC letter to Congress joined by a host of conservative and pro-life organizations – including CatholicVote.org and Students for Life of America – outlined reasons for opposing the bill. “There is very little in this bill, despite the pretenses, that is actually intended to provide useful or necessary information to the public,” said the letter. “The overriding purpose is precisely the opposite: To discourage, as much as possible, disfavored groups (such as NRLC) from communicating about officeholders, by exposing citizens who support such efforts to harassment and intimidation, and by smothering organizations in layer on layer of record keeping and reporting requirements, all backed by the threat of civil and criminal sanctions. Indeed, the bill would benefit from a truth-in-labeling amendment to clarify that “DISCLOSE” actually stands for ‘Deterring Independent Speech about Congress except by Labor Organizations and Selected Elites.’”Read more here.
