Eight days before the May 19 primaries, our Government Relations Director Jack Anderson secured his first major victory with passage of the nation’s first law stopping ActBlue’s practice of processing billions of dollars in unverified contributions to left-wing causes. Governor Kay Ivey signed the legislation after multiple ActBlue executives pleaded the Fifth during congressional testimony.

We are especially grateful that many of the legislators who voted for this measure, for whom we are canvassing many doors among the 126,840 Alabama doors canvassed recently in Alabama for next week’s primaries by our Director of Strategic Engagement and Field Operations Holly Klucarnich. Our bill SB 92 won bipartisan support as part of a broader election integrity package including 13 measures.

Click https://wisconsinffc.com/ for our bio page including Jack and Holly. Critics may say it passed in a red state but was vetoed in a purple state, but if only Democrats had voted on SB92 it would have passed Alabama (outside of needing a quorum), so there was no reason for a veto and Wisconsin and all states who truly support fair elections should pass this model legislation.

Senator Orr saw our Wisconsin bill and adopted it to Alabama, meaning we did not need to lobby legislators since all the information any state needs to pass this legislation is on our 501c4 site https://freedomandfamilyaction.com/, however it was nice to knock on the doors of a hundred thousand voters in the districts of many of the legislators who voted to pass this crucial legislation. 

Many of those doors canvassed were in the districts of Senators Albritton, Chesteen, Elliott, Hovey, Jones, Kelley, Price, and Roberts, along with Representatives Holk-Jones, Lomax, Pettus, and Simpson, all of whom we were canvassing before they voted to pass this common sense legislation. The issue became national news when President Donald Trump retweeted our report revealing that ActBlue had processed hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from individuals who reported having no job.

Special thanks go to bill sponsor Arthur Orr, as well as Senate Pro Tem Garlan Gudger and Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter, who worked together to advance this legislation as part of a package of 13 election integrity bills. Just as importantly, they worked through the process in a way that encouraged bipartisan participation from Democrats including Representative “Action” Jackson, Sam Jones, McCampbell, and Senator Beasley.

Years ago, I worked on winning ground games in Democratic primaries that helped elect those our Democrats against more radical opponents, creating a level of trust that helped make this a genuine bipartisan effort. That cooperation came only weeks after Wisconsin passed similar legislation, only to see Governor Tony Evers veto it after months of debate while offering baseless objections that our 501(c)(4), Freedom and Family Action, had already answered in committee testimony.

For more information, our original groundbreaking ActBlue story retweeted by President Trump is here:  Fox Business interview on ActBlue investigation

Coverage of the ongoing criminal investigation led by Congressman Paul Gosar into whether ActBlue used loopholes that could allow foreign money to flow into left-wing campaigns is here:
Coverage of ActBlue investigation

And a broader overview of Alabama’s election reform package is available here:
Ballotpedia coverage of Alabama election reform package

Key reforms included in Alabama’s election integrity package:

• Requiring post-election audits after statewide and countywide general elections.
• Banning foreign nationals from contributing to candidates or ballot measure campaigns.
• Requiring campaigns to verify that credit card donations come from U.S. billing addresses or U.S. citizens living abroad.(our bill SB92)
• Expanding transparency and access regarding restoration of voting rights for individuals with felony convictions.
• Establishing clearer runoff procedures and election administration standards.
• Allowing voters to petition for referendums on school system consolidation issues.