2010/01/19 State Senate votes 26-7 to OK key campaign finance bill

On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the State Senate approved bipartisan legislation strongly supported by Wisconsin Democracy Campaign closing the "issue ad" loophole that enables special interests to skirt longstanding disclosure requirements and campaign contribution limitations in Wisconsin law and secretly spend unlimited sums of money to influence state elections.

To see how your senator voted, go here. Before today's debate and vote, the Democracy Campaign sent a memo to all senators calling approval of this legislation the "single most significant action" senators could take to make elections in Wisconsin better.

The bill now moves on to the state Assembly, where it has already received committee approval and where a majority of members are on record in support of the legislation.