# Center for Political Accountability

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Bringing transparency & accountability to corporate political spending

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- [Press Release: 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CPA-2025-CPA-Zicklin-Index-press-release-11-06-25-.docx#new_tab)
- [Anthropic is launching a 'presidential engagement' effort to advice candidates on AI policy ahead of the 2028 election](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Fortune-Anthropic-is-launching-a-‘presidential-engagement-effort-to-advise-candidates-on-AI-policy-ahead-of-the-2028-election.pdf#new_tab): "I’ve not seen such as formalized engagement through a presidential election engagement committee. My reading is this is an AI company effort aimed at shaping or staving off government regulation or oversight.”
- [How Hidden Donors and $11.6 Billion in Spending Are Rewriting the Midterm Elections](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/US-News-How-Hidden-Donors-and-11.6-Billion-in-Spending-Are-Rewriting-the-Midterm-Elections.pdf#new_tab): “I think the reason why you have such spending is because the stakes are so high,” said Bruce Freed, president and a founder of the Center for Political Accountability.
- [How Worried Should Dems Be About the GOP's Huge Cash Advantage?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/The-New-Republic-How-worried-should-Dems-be-about-the-GOPs-huge-cash-advantage.pdf#new_tab): “Money is important, but it’s not everything,” said Bruce Freed, the president of the Center for Political Accountability. “Public angst, deep public concern, can offset the type of money advantage—or at least mitigate some of the money advantage—that you’re seeing today.”
- [Research Primer: Corporate Political Activity](https://impact.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Corporate-Political-Activity-Primer.pdf#new_tab): Corporate donations to political campaigns are at an all-time high, with billions of dollars flowing into individual candidates’ campaigns and third-party entities, making it exceedingly difficult to follow the money.
- [Primer on Corporate Political Activity: The Risks Companies Face from Political Spending, and How to Manage Them](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Harvard-Law-School-Corporate-Governance-Forum-Primer-on-Corporate-political-activity.pdf#new_tab): The primer couldn’t be more timely as K Street and corporate America brace for possible post midterm congressional investigations. Business leaders and general counsels know that their companies’ political donations will be in the crosshairs.
- [Companies Pour Record Funds into Political Campaigns](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Agenda-Campaign-Spending.pdf#new_tab): ...if Democrats take control of Congress, there could be hearings related to corporations' political spending. And those hearings "could be quite searing," said Bruce Freed
- [Corporate Political Spending: A Risk Boards Can No Longer Delegate](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Directors-Boards-Corporate-Political-Spending-A-Risk-Boards-Can-No-Longer-Delegate-09-24-26-Bruce-Freed-Bill-Laufer-Wharton-Impact-CPA-Primer.pdf#new_tab): A new primer offers directors a framework for understanding and managing the risks tied to their company's political activity.
- [Public Failure, Private Ordering](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/UPenn-Journal-of-Business-Law-Public-Failure-Private-Ordering.pdf#new_tab): "...as corporate political expenditures have grown in scale and complexity, so too have concerns regarding their ethical implications, transparency, legality, corruption, and potential for undue influence over democratic institutions."
- [Risks of Political Giving Primer](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Influence-Wharton-Center-for-Political-Accountability-Point-To-Risks-of-Political-Giving.pdf#new_tab): “The risk companies face from political spending has reached an all-time high,” said Bruce Freed, the president of the Center for Political Accountability. “It is hitting Code Red.”
- [Top US Firms that backed Voting Rights Act donate to groups working to undermine it](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/The-Guardian-Top-US-firms-that-backed-Voting-Rights-Act-donate-to-groups-working-to-undermine-it.pdf): “A $100,000 contribution that ends up impacting a handful of state races can flip a state legislature, can flip an AG’s office,” said Jeanne Hanna, CPA’s vice-president of research.
- [The Supreme Court Reaffirms Its Embrace of Political Disclosure](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Columbia-Law-School-Blue-Sky-Blog-The-Supreme-Court-Reaffirms-Its-Embrace-of-Political-Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): For a host of reasons, both legal and business, public corporations share Congress' interest in stemming corruption.
- [Corporate Donations in the 'Crosshairs'](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Bloomberg-Government-Corporate-Donations-in-the-Crosshairs.pdf#new_tab): A top business school and the Center for Political Accountability are out with a new guide cautioning business leaders that their political donations "are in the crosshairs."
- [Is Corporate Political Spending Becoming Bad for Business?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Inside-Political-Money-Is-Corporate-Political-Spending-Becoming-Bad-for-Business-08-17-26-CPA-profile.pdf#new_tab): A small D.C. policy shop, the Center for Political Accountability, is driving a critique of money in politics aimed at spurring new thinking in C-suites and boardrooms.
- [2026 Proxy Season: CPA Political Disclosure and Accountability Effort Maintains Strong Momentum](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-2026-Proxy-Season-CPA-Political-Disclosure-and-Accountability-Effort-Maintains-Strong-Momentum.pdf#new_tab): The 2026 proxy season continued to show strong shareholder support for the Center for Political Accountability's corporate political disclosure and accountability effort in an increasingly challenging environment.
- [Press Release: Research Primer Corporate Political Activity](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CPA-Wharton-Impact-Corporate-Political-Activity-Primer-press-release-08-06-26.pdf#new_tab): The Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Impact) and the nonprofit Center for Political Accountability have jointly published the Wharton Impact-CPA Corporate Political Activity Research Primer, cautioning business leaders that “In today’s polarized politics, corporate political donations are in the crosshairs.”
- [OpenAI Employees Are Funding a Political Fight Against Their Own President](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/openai-employes-inc-6.pdf#new_tab): Freed said boards should consider the reputation consequences of executives' personal political activity when it overlaps with a company's business or regulatory interests.
- [Trump's Freedom 250 draws corporate sponsors with business before his administration](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CNBC-Trumps-Freedom-250-draws-corporate-sponsors-with-business-before-his-administration.pdf#new_tab): “The concern is not that companies are sponsoring a national celebration. The concern is that this celebration appears to offer access to the president while some of those companies have business before his Administration,”
- [The New Rules of Political Spending Oversight](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/CPA-Directors-Boards-The-New-Rules-of-Political-Spending-Oversight.pdf#new_tab): Rising reputational, legal and shareholder risks are pushing boards to treat political spending as a governance priority.
- [Maintaining an Ethical Compass in Turbulent Times](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CPA-2026-Conference-Report-Maintaining-an-Ethical-Compass.pdf#new_tab): Companies and their leadership are at a crossroads: how to constructively engage in the political process and manage political spending. Confronted with challenges and risks never faced before, their previous political spending and engagement strategies, designed for a period of predictability under stable democratic institutions, no longer advance or protect corporate interests.
- [Maintaining an Ethical Compass in Turbulent Times](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/CPA-Stern-Conference-Report-Ethical-Compass-03-13-26.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Crypto Industry's Big Election Spending Highlights Political Risk of Super PACs](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Noosphere-The-Crypto-Industrys-Big-Election-Spending-Highlights-Political-Risk-of-Super-PACs.pdf#new_tab): The U.S. cryptocurrency industry has become one of the most aggressive players in U.S. elections, but its spending has amplified scrutiny and backlash of the industry without delivering clear wins.
- [Nathan Cummings Foundation v. Axon Enterprise, Inc.](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-Nathan-Cummings-Foundation-v.-Axon-Enterprise-LLLJ-Inc.pdf#new_tab): Between 2011 and 2025, proposals seeking disclosure of political spending won majority support at 30 companies, according to the Center for Political Accountability (CPA).
- [IRS glitch masked $51m in political donations, finance watchdog says](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-Guardian-IRS-glitch-masked-51m-in-political-donations-finance-watchdog-says.pdf#new_tab): A total of $51m for the second half of 2025 remains unaccounted for due to this technical error, according to the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a non-profit that tracks corporate spending.
- [Compounding Risk](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Compounding-Risk-The-Unexpected-Consequences-of-Cryptos-Political-Dominance.pdf#new_tab)
- [Proxies for Politics](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-Proxies-for-Politics.pdf#new_tab): The Center for Political Accountability (CPA), which has long worked with investors to promote political transparency, including by developing a model shareholder proposal and maintaining the CPA-Zicklin Index, a widely used measure of corporate political disclosure...
- [2025 Proxy Season Analysis (Institutional Investor Report)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-CPA-Proxy-Vote-Analysis-1.7.25.pdf#new_tab): Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution increased to 63.0 percent in the 2025 proxy season, up from 2024’s 60.8 percent support from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Diligent Market Intelligence.
- [Does Transparency Change Behavior?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-transparency-change-behavior-jason-teed-cfa-muhsc/?trackingId=JbysTHzNKd0XXe5msI1PuA==#new_tab): The CPA-Zicklin Index—developed by CPA and the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School—has become the benchmark for measuring how transparently companies report and oversee their corporate-funded election-related spending...
- [Proxies for Politics](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Proxies-for-Politics-Fisch-Robertson-2025.pdf#new_tab): The CPA both maintains the highly influential Zicklin index, which measures several components of issuer political transparency and assists investors in navigating one category of political disclosure proposals.
- [2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Find Strong Corporate Support](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-2025-CPA-Zicklin-Index-Finds-Strong-Corporate-Support-for-Robust-Political-Disclosure-and-Accountability.pdf#new_tab): The number of leading U.S. companies with the most robust policies for transparency and accountability around their political spending increased significantly from 103 in 2024 to 112 this year...
- [Advisory Proxy Resolutions Are More Important Than Ever](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CLS-Blue-Sky-Blog-Advisory-Proxy-Resolutions-Are-More-Important-Than-Ever.pdf#new_tab): Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins and the Trump administration are pushing to eliminate proxy resolutions that are advisory, which would be a fatal blow to resolutions calling for political transparency and board oversight.
- [Corporations Are Doing Better Than You Might Think At Disclosing Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Noosphere-Corporations-Are-Doing-Better-Than-You-Might-Think-At-Disclosing-Political-Spending-Brody-Mullins.pdf#new_tab): Large U.S. corporations are doing a better job of making public their political activity, but they have a long way to go. That's the conclusion of an annual survey of S&P 500 companies done by the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the
- [Sustainable Finance](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Thomson-Reuters-Sustainable-Finance-2025-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab): Despite political headwinds, a record 112 S&P 500 companies scored 90 percent or better on measures such as whether they disclose political spending with corporate funds, or make boards responsible for overseeing it.
- [Visa, Con Ed Among Leaders In Political Disclosure Rankings](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Law-360-Visa-Con-Ed-Among-Leaders-In-Political-Disclosure-Rankings.pdf#new_tab): Some 205 companies in the overall S&P 500 scored over 80%, or in the first tier, of the 2025 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, a benchmarking study released Thursday.
- [2025 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/2025-cpa-zicklin-index-appendix-g/)
- [Public Failure, Private Ordering: Successful Self-Regulation of Corporate Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/UPenn-Journal-of-Business-Law-Public-Failure-Private-Ordering.pdf#new_tab): A forthcoming article on Private Ordering, authored by CPA.
- [Real Risks](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CPA-Real-Risks-10-24-2025.pdf#new_tab): The report is divided into three parts: risk to the bottom line; risks from political pressure and retribution; and risks to corporate culture and a stable business environment. It concludes with policies companies can put in place and actions they can take to protect themselves narrowly and broadly.
- [‘Woke Chubbʼ campaign cements insurance as new front in climate wars](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Insurance-Insider-Woke-Chubb-campaign-cements-insurance-as-new-front-in-climate-wars.pdf#new_tab): Republicans have received around $284,000 compared to Democratsʼ roughly $215,000, though Chubb has only donated to Republicans in the past two years, according to data compiled by the Center for Political Accountability...
- [Corporate Political Disclosure Shareholder Proposals Draw Surprising Support](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Covington-Corporate-Political-Disclosure-Shareholder-Proposals-Draw-Surprising-Support-1.pdf#new_tab): Campaign spending disclosure proposals passed at five companies this season, and eight others saw similar resolutions.
- [Support for Shareholder Proposals Regarding Political Accountability and Disclosure Remains Strong](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Skadden-Support-for-Shareholder-Proposals-Regarding-Political-Accountability-and-Disclosure-Remains-Strong.pdf#new_tab): Despite a downward trend in the overall number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) shareholder proposals, support for shareholder proposals demanding increased political accountability and transparency surged in the 2025 proxy season...
- [FETH Metrics and the Shadow of CPCs: Navigating Governance Risk in a Post-Regulatory Shift Landscape](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AInvest-FETH-Metrics-and-the-Shadow-of-CPCs.pdf#new_tab): CPA's 2025 report, Corporate Political Spending: What Are the Real Risk?, underscores the reputational and legal hazards of misaligned political spending.
- [New Report Alerts Companies to New Level of Risk from Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-New-Report-Alerts-Companies-to-New-Level-of-Risk-from-Political-Spending.pdf#new_tab): Companies have a duty to protect shareholders from a range of risks - especially those that threaten revenue and competitiveness in a global economy. As corporate political spending grows more complex, so do the financial and reputational risks it poses.
- [The Framework Guide](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CPA-Framework-Guide.pdf#new_tab): Guide to Becoming a CPA-Zicklin Framework Company See the Guide to becoming a Framework Company Read More>>>
- [Despite headwinds, governance reforms keep traction](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Reuters-Despite-headwinds-governance-reforms-keep-traction-Ross-Kerber.pdf#new_tab): "If you're going to give, you have to have robust disclosures and oversight," Freed said.
- [Disclosing Political Spend Wins Surprising Investor Support](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Law360-Disclosing-Political-Spending-Wins.pdf#new_tab): This proxy season, 13 companies have seen basically the same disclosure resolution on their ballots, according to figures from the non-partisan Center for Political Accountability, with the final one facing a vote last Friday...five majority votes in one season is almost unheard of. The resolution won one majority vote last year.
- [Guide to Corporate Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CPA-Guide-to-CPS-2025.pdf#new_tab): The Corporate Guide to Political Spending See the Guide to Corporate Political Spending. Read More>>>
- [What Companies Can Learn from Law Firms About Political Retaliation](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Columbia-Law-School-Blue-Sky-Blog-What-Companies-Can-Learn-from-Law-Firms-About-Political-Retaliation.pdf#new_tab): When retribution from the Oval Office threatens the nation’s legal system, there is cause for worry in C-Suites across America.
- [CZ claps back against 'baseless' US plea deal allegations](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CZ-claps-back-against-baseless-US-plea-deal-allegations.pdf#new_tab): “While the companies making these contributions may be seeking a favorable regulatory environment, these political donations further erode public trust and expose companies to legal, reputational, and business risks..."
- [Risky Return: The True Price of Crypto's Political Spending Spree](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CPA-RISKY-RETURN.pdf#new_tab): This report from the Center for Political Accountability sheds light on electoral spending by public companies heavily involved in the emerging cryptocurrency fields. The report traces tens of millions of dollars in targeted political spending and links that spending to concrete risks, caused by this spending, that affect already embattled companies.
- [US rise of cryptocurrency and fall of regulation pose ‘profound risks’ – report](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Guardian-US-rise-of-cryptocurrency-and-fall-of-regulation-pose-‘profound-risks-–-report.pdf#new_tab): A new report warns of “profound risks” in American politics as cryptocurrency companies increase their political spending and Donald Trump oversees regulatory retreat while promising to create a “crypto strategic reserve”.
- [Misleading political spending disclosure allege to run afoul of the securities laws](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cooley-LLP-Misleading-political-spending-disclosure-alleged-to-run-afoul-of-the-securities-laws.pdf#new_tab): What is a 501(c)(4) organization? According to The 2024 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability, IRC section 501(c)(4) exempts from federal income tax “certain civic groups and nonprofit organizations, whose primary purpose is to promote social welfare.”
- [Donald Trump's Inauguration: The Millions Are Flowing](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CPA-Mediapart-Donald-Trumps-inauguration-the-waltz-of-millions.pdf#new_tab): "With Donald Trump, everything is transactional and based on his animosity towards people. Some companies donate to gain access, while others do so for protection," Bruce Freed explains
- [Toyota and Meta slipped close to Mr. Trump. The Meaning of 'donation to the presidential inauguration'](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Nikkei-Toyota-and-Meta-slipped-close-to-Mr.-Trump-The-meaning-of-donation-to-the-presidential-inauguration.pdf#new_tab): "Every company is lining up to 'buy favors,'" said Bruce Freed, CPA President.
- [Trump's inaugural fund has a record $170M US in donations. Why corporations are so eager to give](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CBC-Trumps-Inaugural-fund-has-a-record-170m-US-in-donations.-Why-corporations-are-so-eager-to-give.pdf#new_tab): "The donations to the inaugural fund are basically to gain favour and to gain access," said Bruce Freed, president and co-founder of the Center for Political Accountability
- [The Corporate Underwriters Trilogy](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corporate-Underwriters-Trilogy.pdf#new_tab): The 2024 trilogy of reports by the Center for Political Accountability— Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap, Courting Risk: Corporate Underwriters & State Attorneys General, and Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road executive summary.
- [2024 Proxy Season Analysis (Institutional Investor Report)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/2024-cpa-proxy-report/#new_tab): Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution dropped to 63.7 percent in the 2024 proxy season, down from 2023’s 70.1 percent support from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Diligent Market Intelligence.
- [Boards Increasingly Toss Political Issues to Nom-Gov Committees](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Agenda-Boards-Increasingly-Toss-Political-Issues-to-Nom-Gov-Committees.pdf#new_tab): The high risk of getting political spending wrong makes it ripe for focused oversight, said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
- [Under-the-Radar Company Political Dollars Spotlighted by New Interactive Database](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/527-CPA-Database-Press-release-11-21-24.pdf#new_tab): The Center for Political Accountability today announced the launch of The Barbara and Morris Pearl 527 Interactive Database, a user-friendly interactive database created to shine a spotlight on under-the-radar corporate political spending in the United States.
- [ISS Analyzes Trends in Corporate Political Activity Disclosures and Related Shareholder Proposals Over the Past Decade](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Fenwick-ISS-Analyzes-Trends-in-Corporate-Political-Activity-Disclosures-and-Related-Shareholder-Proposals-Over-the-Past-Decade.pdf#new_tab): In thinking ahead to the 2025 proxy season, companies should consider, among other things, their CPA-Zicklin Index score.
- [US companies remain with associations despite divergence on climate](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sustainable-Views-US-companies-remain-with-associations-despite-divergence-on-climate-11-18-24-Financial-Times-publication.pdf#new_tab): When Donald Trump was elected the 47th US president earlier this month, he did so with considerable help from corporate America. But corporate money is not just deeply embedded in political campaigns, it also has a major influence on the success or failure of specific legislation.
- [2024 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-2024-cpa-zicklin-index-of-corporate-political-disclosure-and-accountability.pdf#new_tab): The Index’s data reflect leading companies holding firm overall to established norms of political disclosure and accountability, despite fierce headwinds against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and related principles for investors and U.S. corporations.
- [US business interests deeply embedded in election](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Sustainable-Views-US-business-interests-deeply-embedded-in-election.pdf): In 2020, fewer than half of companies in the S&P 500 disclosed their election-related contributions to PACs and trade associations, according to the Center for Political Accountability. Among those that did disclose, two-thirds of their spending went to trade associations.
- [Wells Fargo has tripled political spending with state](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Reuters-Wells-Fargo-has-tripled-political-spending-with-state-groups-over-past-decade.pdf#new_tab): Wells Fargo gave a total of $704,300 to three Democratic and three Republican organizations known as 527s that are focused on electing governors, attorneys general and state lawmakers, according to data from the Center for Political Accountability
- [What's Happening with Corporate Political Spending Disclosure?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Cooley-LLP-Whats-Happening-with-Corporate-Political-Spending-Disclosure.pdf): “two of the largest institutional investors, BlackRock and Vanguard, voted for CPA’s resolution for the first time last year. BlackRock did so for six of the 12 CPA resolutions and Vanguard for three.”
- [A Leading Renewable Energy Financing Bank Gains Important Insights on U.S.- based Opportunities](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/SP-Global-A-Leading-Renewable-Energy-Financing-Bank-Gains-Important-Insights-on-U.S.-based-Opportunities.pdf#new_tab): Electric co-ops top industry's political contributions; utilities change approach.
- [Amazon donates to group backing hardline anti-abortion Republican](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Guardian-Amazon-donates-to-group-backing-hardline-anti-abortion-Republican.pdf#new_tab): DoorDash and CVS also contributing funds to Raga group trying to re-elect Todd Rokita, who favors total abortion ban.
- [Press Release: 2024 CPA-Zicklin Index](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CPA-2024-CPA-Zicklin-Index-press-release-10-25-24-official.pdf#new_tab)
- [Press Release: Leading Companies Commit to Following with CPA-Zicklin Model Code Governing Company Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Model-Code-Companies-press-release-10-25-24-official-02A.pdf#new_tab)
- [2024 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/2024-russell-1000-index-data/)
- [FirstEnergy gave heavily to Trump and Trump worked for a federal bailout, report says](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ohio-Capital-Journal-FirstEnergy-gave-heavily-to-Trump-and-Trump-worked-for-a-federal-bailout-report-says.pdf#new_tab): As it sought a massive, corrupt bailout in Ohio, Akron-based FirstEnergy also spent lavishly on Trump-aligned dark money groups and at hotels and golf courses owned by the former president, a new report said this week.
- [Comcast, a Backer of Reproductive Rights, Donates to DeSantis’s Anti-Abortion PAC](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-Bulwark-Comcast-a-Backer-of-Reproductive-Rights-Donates-to-DeSantiss-Anti-Abortion-PAC.pdf#new_tab): ...the Center for Political Accountability issued an analysis that showed Comcast and other corporations that have liberal abortion employee policies were major contributors to the Republican State Leadership Committee.
- [Shareholders Want More Disclosure of Corporate Political Expenditures](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Value-Edge-Advisors-Shareholders-Want-More-Disclosure-of-Corporate-Political-Expenditures.pdf): 87 percent of respondents said they believe publicly traded companies should be required to have a code of conduct for assessing and governing their political spending
- [Lobbyists exploit massive loophole to wine and dine lawmakers, aides at fancy getaways](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Politico-Lobbyists-exploit-massive-loophole-to-wine-and-dine-lawmakers-aides-at-fancy-getaways.pdf#new_tab): “What’s important to understand is that they are doing this in a social setting, so [lobbyists and staffers] become friends. It’s not just lobbyists going into the office,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
- [New Survey Reveals Strong Shareholder Support for Companies to Follow a Code of Conduct for Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Columbia-Law-School-Blue-Sky-Blog-New-Survey-Reveals-Strong-Shareholder-Support-for-Companies-Bruce-Freed-Bill-Laufer-Karl-Sandstrom.pdf#new_tab): A recently released survey, commissioned by the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Political Accountability and conducted by a leading non-partisan polling firm, set out to identify how retail shareholders expect companies to approach, govern and assess their political spending
- [Breakdown of Public Company Donations to 527 Committees](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/breakdown-of-public-company-donations-for-527-committees/): Download the infographic here
- [A Deeper Look at the Scope, Impact, and Risks of Company Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-A-Deeper-Look-at-the-Scope-Impact-and-Risks-of-Company-Political-Spending.pdf#new_tab): What exactly is the scope and impact of corporate political spending? Much has been written about the risks – legal, reputational and bottom line – faced by companies engaging in this spending.
- [Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Corporate-Underwriters-Where-the-Rubber-Hits-the-Road.pdf#new_tab): In this important report, the Center for Political Accountability has brought to light a little-noticed but politically important set of organizations that fund campaigns for governors, state legislators, and attorneys general. These big six “527 Committees” (Republican Governors Association, Democratic Governors Association, Republican Attorneys General Association, Democratic Attorneys General Association, Republican State Leadership Committee and
- [What's the Impact of Political Spending from Corporate Treasuries?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Cooley-LLP-Whats-the-impact-of-political-spending-from-corporate-treasuries-Cydney-Posner.pdf#new_tab): Corporate Underwriters: Where the Rubber Hits the Road, from the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability, examines "the scope of corporate political spending and its impact on state and national politics and policy" by taking a deeper dive into six highly influential "527" organizations.
- [Mason-Dixon CPA National Shareholder Poll](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CPAShareholder724NationalPoll.pdf#new_tab): This poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida from July 22 through August 2, 2024. A total of 800 adults were interviewed nationwide by telephone. All indicated they currently have money invested in common stock, mutual funds or other investments like an IRA, 401K, education fund or pension plan that
- [Investors Favor Political Disclosures for Companies, Poll Finds](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Bloomberg-Investors-Favor-Political-Disclosures-for-Companies-Poll-Finds.pdf): Voters who are invested in the stock market want more transparency of corporate political spending, according to a new poll released as races heat up for the White House and down-ballot offices.
- [Press Release: Mason-Dixon Survey Findings](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Press-Release-Mason-Dixon-CPA-Shareholder-Survey.pdf)
- [Press Release: Harvard Law School Corporate Governance](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Havard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-Press-Release.pdf)
- [Press Release: 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2023-CPA-Zicklin-Index-Press-Release.pdf)
- [Press Release: Under the Radar](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Under-the-Radar-Press-Release.pdf)
- [Mason-Dixon Survey Findings: Shareholder Attitudes and Corporate Political Spending and Code of Conduct](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Mason-Dixon-Survey-Findings-Shareholder-attitudes-and-corporate-political-spending-and-code-of-conduct-Brad-Coker.pdf)
- [A Corporate Insider on the Model Code: Invaluable Tool, Essential for Risk Management](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/A-Corporate-Insider-on-the-Model-Code-Invaluable-Tool-Essential-for-Risk-Management.pdf#new_tab): Representing major corporations with the Federal Government for nearly 40 years, I viewed my position as akin to a risk manager. I was continually on the watch for opportunities to move our legislative and regulatory agenda forward while being aware of the political and reputation risks and rewards. For years, however, the overwhelming focus was
- [Musk risks political fallout by endorsing Trump. Few CEOs are following](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Christian-Science-Monitor-Musk-risks-political-fallout-by-endorsing-Trump.-Few-CEOs-are-following.pdf#new_tab): CEOs are looking to keep doors open” with both Republicans and Democrats.
- [If Leading CEOs Aren’t Donating to Trump, It’s Because They Don’t Need To](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/The-Nation-If-Leading-CEOs-Arent-Donating-to-Trump-Its-Because-They-Dont-Need-To.pdf#new_tab): Even as some corporate bigwigs have taken to the sidelines, Trump’s fundraising has outstripped President Biden’s. Political Accountability - Big Business - Trump
- [Business Roundtable targets climate rule supported by its members](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EE-News-Business-Roundtable-targets-climate-rule-supported-by-its-members.pdf#new_tab): It's a real problem and it raises questions in terms of conflicts and what the companies are doing, and how their money is being used," said Bruce Freed, the president of the nonpartisan Center for Political Accountability.
- [Supreme Court Architect Demands Justices Shield Big Oil From Historic Climate Trial](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Rolling-Stone-Supreme-Court-Architect-Demands-Justices-Shield-Big-Oil-From-Historic-Climate-Trial.pdf#new_tab): “Climate change is such an important area of risk,” says Jeanne Hanna, research director at the Center for Political Accountability. “A lot of companies acknowledge that they face quantifiable economic risks if climate change carries on. It can do damage to their markets. It could do damage to their production. Companies themselves recognize it as
- [Companies were already wary of 2024 politics. Trumps' verdict could solidify that caution](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Yahoo-Finance-Companies-were-already-wary-of-2024-politics.-Trumps-verdict-could-solidify-that-caution.pdf#new_tab): Of the 345 companies that have been on the S&P 500 since 2015, 270 of them now prohibit or fully disclose spending on candidates or their committees. That's up from 168 a few years prior, according to CPA’s analysis
- [Courting Risk: Corporate Underwriters & State Attorneys General](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CPA-Courting-Risk-FINAL.pdf#new_tab): Political spending to support controversial policies and leaders thrives in darkness. And no spending has defied necessary scrutiny more than the bigger and bigger donations that public corporations are giving to state attorneys generals through partisan third-party groups.
- [Activism & Voting This Week](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Diligent-Rebecca-Sherratt.pdf#new_tab): "The index is recognized by companies as credible and serious. It is respected," Bruce Freed, CPA president, told DMI. "Increasingly, companies want to be 'Trendsetters' (achieving scores of 90+ out of 100) that they can tout to show their best practices. In the 2023 index, 39% of the S&P 500 were in the top quintile."
- [Corporate America Is Sitting Out the Trump-Biden Rematch](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WSJ-Corporate-America-Is-Sitting-Out-the-Trump-Biden-Rematch.pdf#new_tab): Even if executives hope to steer clear of this election, "if they engage in political spending, they're speaking," said Bruce Freed, president of The Center For Political Accountability, which has pushed for spending disclosures. "They won't be sitting it out. As long as they're giving, that creates risk because of what it associates them with." political spending - 2024 election - corporate governance
- [Navigating an Election Year at the Peak of Polarization](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Conference-Board-Navigating-an-Election-Year-at-the-Peak-of-Polarization.pdf#new_tab): There’s a noticeable trend in the S&P 500 towards political disclosure and accountability becoming the norm, with a significant percentage of companies scoring high on the CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.
- [Primer on Corporate Political Spending](/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Primer-on-Corporate-Political-Spending-for-Incoming-Corporate-Directors.pdf#new_tab): Primer on Corporate Political Spending See the Primer on Corporate Political Spending for incoming Directors. Read More>>>
- [Primer on Corporate Political Spending For Incoming Directors](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Primer-on-Corporate-Political-Spending-for-Incoming-Corporate-Directors.pdf#new_tab): The purpose of this primer is to help incoming directors understand the ins and outs of corporate political spending and protect their companies from risks posed by this spending.
- [Audit of the 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Audit-report-04-01-2024.pdf#new_tab)
- [These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Popular-Information-These-50-companies-have-donated-over-23-million-to-election-deniers-since-January-6-2021.pdf#new_tab): Freed told Popular Information that the corporations sending millions in PAC donations to election deniers are "putting themselves at risk." He thinks the companies are underestimating the economic danger of undermining "the rule of law." Instead of focusing on the preservation of "the political system that they need to be able to operate and grow,"
- [US Poll Prompts Investor Focus on Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ESG-Investor-US-Poll-Prompts-Investor-Focus-on-Political-Spending.pdf#new_tab): A rush of shareholder proposals demanding transparency have been filed for the 2024 proxy season, with a strong emphasis on lobbying alignment.
- [Guide to Becoming a Model Code Company](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-Guide-to-Becoming-a-Model-Code-Company.pdf#new_tab): With corporate political disclosure and accountability accepted as the norm, the next step for companies is to put in place a framework for approaching, governing and assessing their election-related spending.
- [orporate Influence Over Legislation/Regulation on Key Themes Affecting the Public Interest, Prompts Investors to File Numerous Proposals Scrutinizing Corporate Political Activity](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CPA-Guide-to-the-Model-Code-ICCR.pdf#new_tab): The vast majority of companies utilize various forms of public policy advocacy to impact legislative and regulatory decisions mainly through lobbying and campaign contributions.
- [Center for Political Accountability Introduces Guide to Model Code](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Cooley-LLP-Center-for-Political-Accountability-introduces-Guide-to-Model-Code.pdf#new_tab): "Now, the CPA has developed a Guide to Becoming a Model Code Company, designed to help companies and their boards understand the Model Code and how it can help them manage election-related political spending in high-risk environments..."
- [Blame These Companies for the GOP's Minority Rule](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Rolling-Stone-Blame-These-Companies-for-the-GOPs-Minority-Rule-2.pdf#new_tab): Big brands like Comcast, Walmart, Pfizer, and AT&T fund the ring-wing political group that wrecked our democracy.
- [Consumers Energy-backed group made big donations Democrats before energy law rewrite](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Detroit-News-Top-lawmakers-got-big-donation-ahead-of-energy-law-rewrite.pdf#new_tab): Three fundraising accounts tied to key Michigan Democrats each got contributions of at least $200,000 from a nonprofit bankrolled by one of the state's largest electric utilities in 2022, according to a tax filing obtained by The Detroit News.
- [Corporate Underwriters and the Democracy Gap](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Corporate-Underwriters-and-the-Democracy-Gap-by-Jeanne-Hanna-1.pdf#new_tab): How company political spending has reshaped state politics and created serious risks for companies, shareholders and our democracy Corporate Underwriters
- [2023 Proxy Season Analysis](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-CPA-Proxy-Report.pdf#new_tab): Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution dropped slightly to 70.8 percent in 2023, down from 2022’s 74.7 percent support from this group of investors, according to a new CPA study based on data from data from Diligent Market Intelligence.
- [Some Minnesota Corporations Quietly Resume Donations to Election Disputers](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Minneapolis-Star-Tribune-Some-Minnesota-corporations-quietly-resume-donations-to-election-disputers.pdf#new_tab): "They've reverted to spending as usual, and they are engaging in spending for access."
- [Center for Political Accountability provides guidance on challenges of corporate political spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Cooley-LLP-Center-for-Political-Accountability-provides-guidance-on-challenges-of-corporate-political-spending.pdf#new_tab): As we begin this new year—a highly charged election year—it might be helpful to check out the Guide to Corporate Political Spending produced by the non-partisan Center for Political Accountability.
- [CPA At 20: Norm Change](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CPA-AT-20.pdf#new_tab)
- [2023 CPA-Zicklin Index Shows Strong Increase in Number of Trendsetters, Top-Scoring Companies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/HLS-Forum-2023-Index-Shows-Strong-Increase-in-Trendsetters.pdf#new_tab): The number of public corporations in the S&P 500 Index getting scores of 90 percent or better, called Trendsetters, jumped from 89 last year to a record 100 now, according to data in the 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.
- [Political spending increasingly seen as ESG metric](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Governance-Intelligence-Political-spending-increasingly-seen-as-ESG-metric.pdf#new_tab): One fifth of S&P 500 firms rank as 'trendsetters' in 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability...
- [Political spending increasingly seen as ESG metric as transparency rating reaches new milestone](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IR-Magazine-Political-spending-increasingly-seen-as-ESG-metric-as-transparency-rating-reaches-new-milestone.pdf#new_tab): One fifth of S&P 500 firms rank as ‘trendsetters’ in 2023 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability.
- [In our 'hyper-polarized' political climate, 20% of the S&P 500 is now doing this](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MarketWatch-Exclusive-2023-CPA-Zicklin-index.pdf#new_tab): As the U.S. continues to look polarized politically, a growing number of S&P 500 companies have made the effort to earn the highest scores from a watchdog organization that's focused on transparency in corporate political spending.
- [2023 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/2023-russell-1000-index-data/)
- [2022 CPA-Zicklin Index: APPENDIX G](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/2022-russell-1000-index-data/)
- [Political Spending: Checklist for Reducing Corporate Risk](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/TheCorporateCounsel-Checklist-for-Reducing-Corporate-Risk.pdf#new_tab): The Center for Political Accountability recently published this 10-page guide to corporate political spending. The guide suggests solutions to 5 common challenges that arise from contributions to political candidates, trade associations, and other third-party groups.
- [Harvard Law School Forum: Guide to Corporate Political Spending: A Practical Checklist for Management](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-CPAs-Guide-to-Corporate-Political-Spending-A-Practical-Checklist-for-Management.pdf#new_tab): The purpose of the Guide is to help safeguard companies as they make political spending decisions in today’s charged environment.
- [Investors Ask Members of BRT To Evaluate How Their Political Activities May Reinforce Or Undermine Democratic Institutions](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Value-Walk-Investors-Ask-Members-Of-BRT-To-Evaluate-How-Their-Political-Activities-May-Reinforce-Or-Undermine-Democratic-Institutions.pdf#new_tab): Today members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) announced they had sent letters to members of the Business Roundtable urging them to align political spending with their state core values, to mitigate both reputational risks to the company, and broader risks to democracy.
- [The FirstEnergy scandal shows everything that could wrong with companies' political spending in 2024](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Fortune-The-FirstEnergy-scandal-shows-everything-that-could-go-wrong-with-companies-political-spending-in-2024.pdf#new_tab): Corporations increasingly face risk from their political spending, and that risk is heightened when they have not charted where funds will actually go.
- [Former Ohio House Speaker Sentenced to 20 Years After Bribery Conviction](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Wall-Street-Journal-Former-Ohio-House-Speaker-Sentenced-to-20-Years-After-Bribery-Conviction.pdf#new_tab): “The whole issue of dark money and soliciting dark money presents a real crisis in our political system today and poses a real risk to companies,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, a Washington, D.C., group that pushes companies to disclose more about their financing of political efforts. “At this point,
- [Conservatives Want Corporate Political Responsibility](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Newsweek-Conservatives-Want-Corporate-Political-Responsibility_Mary-Anna-Mancuso-op-ed-CPA-Zicklin-Model-Code.pdf#new_tab): Bud Light. Disney. Goya. Coca-Cola. Delta. The one thing these companies all have in common is they have all found themselves in the crosshairs of American politics.
- [Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Guardian-Due-Diligence.pdf#new_tab): Blue-chip companies gave to Republican group funneling money to lawmakers who overturned abortion-ban veto in North Carolina. political accountability - political spending - corporate spending Blue-chip companies gave to Republican group funneling money to lawmakers who overturned abortion-ban veto in North Carolina.
- [Looking Behind the Curtain: Corporate due diligence of political spending essential to protect companies from growing risks](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Havard-Law-School-Due-Diligence.pdf#new_tab): As the 2024 election cycle begins in earnest, companies must act on their fiduciary responsibility to more closely monitor their political spending and the accompanying risk. bruce freed - political accountability - As the 2024 election cycle begins in earnest, companies must act on their fiduciary responsibility to more closely monitor their political spending and the accompanying risk.
- [In House Warrior: Political Corporate Accountability Post January 6th with Bruce Freed of the Center for Political Accountability](https://www.levick.com/podcast/political-corporate-accountability-post-january-6th-with-bruce-freed-of-the-center-for-political-accountability/#new_tab)
- [In House Warrior: How Companies Are Reshaping US Politics w Bruce Freed](https://www.levick.com/blog/public-affairs/the-age-of-transparent-political-donations-is-upon-us/#new_tab)
- [ESG's Political Side Bubbles Up in Tense Proxy Season Debates](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bloomberg-Law_ESG.pdf#new_tab): Annual meetings kicked off with a bang this year as companies and their executives confronted increasingly thorny questions from both liberal and conservative stakeholders...
- ['A truly incredible amount of money': millions ride on one US judicial election](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Guardian-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-race.pdf#new_tab): More than $37m has already been spent in an election that will this month determine control of Wisconsin's supreme court, easily making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history. More than $37m has already been spent in an election that will this month determine control of Wisconsin's supreme court, easily making it the most expensive judicial contest in US history. political accountability
- [Under The Radar: The Unrecognized Importance of 527 Committees](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/527-explainer.pdf#new_tab)
- [Letter to the Editor: 'Code' offers framework to help companies avoid perils of dark money](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Crains-Cleveland-Business-Letter-to-the-Editor-Code-offers-framework.pdf#new_tab): Your March 13 editorial ("Out of the darkness") tying the recent Larry Householder guilty verdict to the perils that companies face from "dark money" political spending hit the bullseye.
- [Out of the Darkness](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Crains-Cleveland-Business-Out-of-the-darkness.pdf#new_tab): A sordid chapter in Ohio's political and corporate history came to a close as former Republican House Speaker Larry Householder and former state GOP chairman Matt Borges were convicted last Thursday, March 9, in federal court on racketeering-conspiracy charges.
- [Republicans Are Convicted in Ohio Bribery Scheme](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Wall-Street-Journal-Republicans-Are-Convicted-in-Ohio-Bribery-Schemepdf.pdf#new_tab): “FirstEnergy is the poster child of the risks and damage a company faces from ill-considered political spending,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
- [IBM, Pirelli Tire among companies signing political money principles](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Roll-Call-IBMJ-Pirelli-Tire-among-companies-signing-political-money-principles.pdf#new_tab): Action range from full disclosure to bans on corporate money in politics.
- [IBM, Pirelli, Daone Among First to Sign Pact Limiting Record Lobbying Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/MarketWatch-IBM-J-Pirelli-J-Danone-Among-First-to-Sign-Pact-Limiting-Record-Lobbying-Spending.pdf#new_tab): ‘Interplay between government institutions and businesses engaging in both policy and politics is rightfully being scrutinized in ways not seen for generations,’ says IBM’s Christopher Padilla.
- [Corporations Touting Black History Made Lavish Donations to DeSantis Re-Election](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/South-Florida-Times-CORPORATIONS-TOUTING-BLACK-HISTORY-MADE-LAVISH-DONATIONS-TO-DESANTIS-RE-ELECTION.pdf#new_tab): At least 10 major corporations made substantial donations "directly or indirectly" to the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis, with three of them giving more than $2 million and are now touting their promotion of Black History Month.
- [A former Dow Chemical executive and an activist want corporations to better govern their political spending in the next election. Here's how](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fortune-A-former-Dow-Chemical-executive-and-an-activist-want-corporations-to-better-govern-their-political-spending-in-the-next-election.-Heres-how-Bruce-Freed-and-Peter-Molinaro-.pdf#new_tab): The 2024 election cycle will likely see record campaign spending and companies will find themselves ever more intensely scrutinized for the way they engage in politics.
- [DeSantis's corporate donors under fire for 'hypocrisy' over Black History Month](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/The-Guardian-DeSantiss-corporate-donors-under-fire-for-‘hypocrisy-over-Black-History-Month.pdf#new_tab): Companies such as Amazon, Disney and Walmart funded Florida governor who has imposed curbs on teaching about race in school.
- [How do companies view the current political environment and what can they do about it?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cooley-LLP-How-do-companies-view-the-current-political-environment.pdf#new_tab): According to a new survey and related report from The Conference Board, 78% of US companies characterized the current political environment as “extremely challenging” or “very challenging” for companies—and 20% more described the environment as merely “challenging.” That totals 98%. political accountability cooley
- [Practical Stake: Corporations, Political Spending and Democracy](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/practical-stake-corporations-political-spending-and-democracy/): First Hard Look at Business’ Stake in Democracy, How Their Corporate Political Spending Puts It All At Risk & How Companies Can Best Respond In a new report, Practical Stake: Corporations, Political Spending and Democracy, released today, the Center for Political Accountability spotlights the risks that unaccountable corporate political spending poses to democracy –
- [CPA's Newest Report: Practical Stake](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Practical-Stake.pdf#new_tab): First Hard Look at Business’ Stake in Democracy, How Their Corporate Political Spending Puts It All At Risk & How Companies Can Best Respond
- [Meet the group sharpening the GOP attack on ‘woke’ climate policies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Washington-Post-Woke-climate-policies-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab): Consumers’ Research, bolstered by millions in donations and the Republican takeover of the House, targets Wall Street’s evaluation of climate risks. political accountability
- [In House Warrior: How Companies Can Reduce Risk With Political Disclosure & Accountability With Bruce Freed](https://www.levick.com/podcast/political-disclosure-bruce-freed-center-for-political-accountability/#new_tab): Listen on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or Google Podcasts!
- [Mind The Gap](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GLIO-Mind-the-gap-2023-Georgia-Hall-Kevin-Liu.pdf#new_tab): In the USA, political spending and corporate lobbying are well-established as legitimate business activities that give companies the means to have their interest heard by politicians and governments. At the same time, it is an area that – when not managed appropriately – can expose these companies to heightened business, reputational and legal risks.
- [Follow The Money](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Proxy-Watch-on-CPAs-Model-Code-resolution.pdf#new_tab): US firms face heightened scrutiny of their political spending. Issuers will be thrust further into the political divide heightened from a resolution calling on them to require and disclose reports from trade associations and political action committees they fund detailing exactly where their money goes.
- [On anniversary of the Capitol attack, companies face new pressures to disclose political spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CPA-MarketWatch-On-anniversary-of-the-Capitol-attack.pdf#new_tab): Shareholders, consumer groups and lawmakers seeking more details, better oversight of corporate political outlays...
- [Companies Face Proxy Heat on Political Spending After Dobbs](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bloomberg-Law-Companies-Face-Proxy-Heat.pdf#new_tab): Shareholder proposals targeting political spending are poised to ramp up in this year’s proxy season, pressing companies to unveil if their sometimes tightly-guarded stances on issues line up with their donations.
- [A Deeper Dive -- On the Sidelines or Taking Sides: Corporations, Elections, Social Responsibility, and Long-Term Impacts on Corporate Governance](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CPA-ABA-video-A-Deeper-Dive-—-On-the-Sidelines-or-Taking-Sides-Corporations-Elections-Social-Responsibility-and-Long-Term-Impacts-12-19-22.pdf#new_tab): The American Bar Association released on Dec. 19, 2022, a video filmed at last September’s Business Law Section Annual Meeting.
- [CPA's Corporate 527 Donation Data Set](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/reports-cpa-reports-527data/): Please download the zip file below to access Center for Political Accountability’s research on contributions to and spending by 527 political committees over the past decade, which forms the basis for CPA's forthcoming Conflicted Consequences report. CPA's research focused on six state-focused political committees, several of which reshaped state and national politics and policy. The
- [CPA's 2022 Institutional Investor Proxy Vote Analysis](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-CPA-Proxy-Report.pdf#new_tab): Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution dropped to 75.4 percent in 2022, down from 2021’s record support of 82.5 percent from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Insightia.
- [Corporate PACs vs Treasury Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Corporate-PAC-Treasury-Fund-spending.pdf#new_tab): Corporate PAC-Treasury Fund spending
- [Political Spending Transparency from Russell 1000 Companies? Not So Much](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Cooley-LLP-Political-Spending-Transparency-from-Russell-1000-Companies-Not-So-Much-11-14-22-Cydney-Posner-on-the-2022-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab): political accountability -
- [Big Business courted big controversies in the 2022 midterm elections. Were the returns on their political donations worth the risks?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Fortune-Big-Business-courted-big-controversies-in-the-2022-midterm-elections.-Were-the-returns-on-their-political-donations-worth-the-risks-11-19-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab): In Pennsylvania’s crucial elections this month, Outback Steakhouse’s attempt to back a pro-business candidate went over like a week-old Bloomin’ Onion.
- [STAT+: Amid concerns over U.S. democracy, pharma financed committees that support election deniers](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-STAT-Amid-concerns-over-U.S.-democracy-pharma-helped-finance-committees-that-support-election-deniers-11-07-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab): Some candidates continue to deny the results of the 2020 presidential elections...
- [Agenda: Investors Keep Up the Pressure on Political Disclosure](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Agenda-Investors-Keep-Up-the-Pressure-on-Political-Disclosure-11-07-22-CPA-quoted.pdf): Spending misalignment is raising investors' ire.
- [Kaiser Health News: Centene showers politicians with millions as it courts contracts and settles overbilling allegations](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Kaiser-Health-News-Centene-showers-politicians-with-millions-as-it-courts-contracts-and-settles-overbilling-allegations-11-04-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab): political accountability
- [Mutual Fund Support for Corporate Political Disclosure Surges in 2018](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Mutual-Fund-Proxy-Voting-Analysis-2018.pdf#new_tab): The largest mutual funds’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped significantly in 2018, to 53 percent from 45 percent in 2017, according to an analysis by Fund Votes. This eight percentage point increase was the largest since CPA began tracking institutional investor votes on its resolution in 2008.
- [2010 PROXY SEASON ANALYSIS: Opposition Continues to Decline as Overall Support Remains Strong (doc)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Mutual-Fund-Proxy-Voting-Report_2010-Final.pdf#new_tab): In an important milestone, a majority of mainstream mutual funds voted for the first time either ‘For’ or ‘Abstain’ on the Center for Political Accountability’s model political disclosure resolution in the recently concluded 2010 proxy season. This came as the CPA-coordinated resolution garnered increased support for the seventh consecutive year.[1] Funds in 25 different families
- [2011 PROXY SEASON ANALYSIS: Mutual Fund Support Reaches a New High in 2011 (docx)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-Mutual-Fund-Report-2011.pdf#new_tab): Mutual funds’ support for corporate political spending disclosure reached a new high in 2011. Average percent of votes cast by 40 of the largest U.S. mutual fund firms FOR the 32 Center for Political Accountability (CPA) model political spending resolutions moved up to 34%, compared with votes cast AGAINST or ABSTAIN. This continues an eight-year
- [2012 PROXY SEASON ANALYSIS (docx)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CPA-2012-Mutual-Fund-Votes-Report-FINAL.pdf#new_tab): Mutual funds’ support for corporate political disclosure dipped slightly in 2012 from its record high in the previous year, according to an analysis by the Center for Political Accountability. The review looked at how 40 of the largest mutual fund families voted on CPA’s model shareholder resolution that asked companies to disclose their political spending
- [2013 PROXY SEASON ANALYSIS: MUTUAL FUND SUPPORT HITS NEW HIGH (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Mutual-Fund-Proxy-Voting-Study-2013.pdf#new_tab): Mutual funds’ support for corporate political disclosure reached a new high in 2013, according to a ten-year analysis by the Center for Political Accountability. Forty large US mutual fund families voted in favor of corporate political spending disclosure an unprecedented 39% of the time, on average.
- [2014 PROXY SEASON ANALYSIS: WIDER REVIEW SHOWS HIGHER SUPPORT (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Corporate-Political-Spending-and-the-Mutual-Fund-Vote-2014.pdf#new_tab)
- [Corporate Political Disclosure and the Mutual Fund Vote (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Corporate-Political-Disclosure-and-the-Mutual-Fund-Vote-2015.pdf#new_tab): Mutual funds support for corporate political spending disclosure resolutions held firm in the 2015 proxy season, according to the Center for Political Accountability’s latest survey of mutual fund voting records. This year, funds voted for disclosure 42 percent of the time on average, slightly above the 40 percent vote last year.
- [Three Top Mutual Funds' Votes Support CPA Political Disclosure Resolution in Line with Their Policies (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Three-Top-Mutual-Funds-Votes-Support-CPA-Political-Disclosure-Resolution.pdf#new_tab): Three of the four mutual fund groups that received top rankings for political spending disclosure and accountability in a recent benchmarking study have largely aligned their proxy votes with their policies, supporting at least half of the Center for Political Accountability’s model political disclosure resolutions in this year’s proxy season.
- [Mutual Fund Support for Political Spending Disclosure Jumps in First Year of Trump Presidency (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Mutual-Fund-Report-2017.pdf#new_tab): Support by mutual funds for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped significantly in 2017, to 48 percent from 43 percent in 2016, according to an analysis by Fund Votes. The analysis also found that abstentions decreased from five percent to three percent, indicating a shift toward more active support for political
- [2022 CPA-Zicklin Index](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab): 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability Index Expanded to Russell 1000; Dramatic Gap in Disclosure and Accountability Between S&P 500 and Smaller Companies 2022 Index PDF
- [Ballard Spahr: Corporate Political Disclosure Rankings Show 'Dramatic Gap' in Transparency Between Largest and Smaller Companies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Ballard-Spahr-Corporate-Political-Disclosure-Rankings-Show-‘Dramatic-Gap-in-Transparency-Between-Largest-and-Smaller-Companies-10-21-22.pdf#new_tab): Political Accountability -
- [Fast Company: Corporate America has long embraced ‘both sides’ political spending. That has to stop](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Fast-Company-Corporate-Americas-long-embrace-of-‘both-sides-political-spending-10-11-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Political-Money-The-Need-for-Director-Oversight.pdf#new_tab): When it comes to corporate governance, one area often overlooked is company involvement in politics. The amount of money companies spend for political purposes is relatively small and viewed as immaterial, even though business historically has been a major political funder. Until recently, political expenditures were not fully disclosed and were rarely subject to oversight
- [2015 CPA-Zicklin Press Release (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CPA-Zicklin-Index-2015-press-release.pdf#new_tab)
- [Union Pacific Shareholders Press Company to Disclose Political Contributions (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4-12-04-Union-Pacific-Shareholders-Press-Company-to-Disclose-Political-Contributions.pdf#new_tab): Washington, DC - As part of a campaign to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political contributions, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) is urging Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) shareholders to support a resolution that asks to disclose and...
- [Center for Political Accountability Launches www.TrackYourCompany.org, Disclosing Over $100m in Previously Secret Corporate Political Spending Data (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/4.24.17-TrackYourCompany.org_.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Statement Urging President Trump to Commit “America First Policies” to Transparency (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1.31.17-Urging-President-Trump-to-Commit-America-First-Policies-to-Transparency.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Statement on Trump, LL Bean and Political Contributions (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/1.13.17-Trump-LL-Bean-and-Political-Contributions.pdf#new_tab)
- [Harvard Business Review: A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Harvard-Business-Review-A-Board-Members-Guide-to-Corporate-Political-Spending-10-30-15.pdf#new_tab): The 2016 U.S. election cycle is on track to break political spending records — and corporate contributions will be a large part of that. More than ever, it is the directors’ responsibility to determine when and how their company should engage in political activities. But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight
- [Political Spending Disclosure Rules: Unions vs. Corporations (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Union-vs-Corporate-Disclosure-Fact-Sheet.pdf#new_tab): Corporations and unions are subject to widely different disclosure requirements of their political spending with treasury funds. Citizens United freed up both unions and corporations to spend unlimited amounts of treasury funds on political expenditures, but none of the disclosure requirements for either group were updated along with the loosened spending restrictions. The result is
- [Political Spending: Big Risk for Boards (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Directors-and-Boards-Article-Political-Spending-Big-Risk-for-Boards-2.pdf#new_tab): The role of corporations in politics has changed dramatically. From the passage of the Tillman Act in 1907 to the Supreme Court's decision in 2010 in Citizens United, corporations played a limited role in the financing of federal elections. Corporations were prohibited from using corporate treasuries to make any contributions or expenditures in connection with
- [Reality Check on Arguments Against Disclosure (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CPA-Fact-Check-on-Arguments-Against-Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): The Center for Competitive Politics issued a "fact-checker" on May 1, 2013 that purported to tell "the truth about corporate political spending issues." Unfortunately, it was filled with misstatements and inaccuracies. The following one-page information sheet corrects them.
- [The Importance of Educating Future Business Leaders Post-Citizens United (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Roundtable-Report-The-Importance-of-Educating-Future-Business-Leaders-Post0Citizens-United.pdf#new_tab): The “Roundtable on Corporate Political Accountability: The Importance of Educating Future Business Leaders Post-Citizens United” was convened by four leading American business and law schools and the Center for Political Accountability. Deans and faculty at these schools identified an urgent need to educate future business leaders about issues of corporate political engagement that did not
- [The Conference Board Review: Dangerous Terrain (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Dangerous-Terrain.pdf#new_tab): This CPA Report provides a guide on how to manage corporate political spending in a risky new environment. Business leaders are educated on how to avoid the business and reputational risks that come with undisclosed political spending. The risks, as seen with the recent Target controversy, are not always obvious.
- [Survey of Directors (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2008-Director-Survey.pdf#new_tab): Members of boards of directors view political spending as a potentially risky pursuit and an overwhelming majority supports disclosure of corporate political activity, according to this survey of 225 directors commissioned by the CPA and conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. Ironically, an overwhelming majority of directors possess little knowledge of the rules and regulations
- [Taking Initiative: How Corporate Contributions to Ballot Measures Pose a Risk to Shareholders, and Why Directors Must Oversee Company Political Spending (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Taking-Initiative-Final.pdf#new_tab): Taking Initiative is the first comprehensive study of how corporations put themselves and shareholder value at risk by failing to critically examine their contributions to ballot measures. It explores the proliferation of the initiative in American politics as a means of polarizing and galvanizing voters, and takes a close look at how initiative campaigns have
- [Open Windows: How Codes of Conduct Regulate Corporate Political Spending and a Model Code to Protect Company Interests and Shareholder Value (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/OpenWindows.pdf#new_tab): A company's political spending can expose it to serious risks. Wrongheaded spending can compromise a corporation's reputation, or worse, expose it to criminal liability. Open Windowsshares a survey of S&P 100's that shows how few have created codes of conduct or other publicly stated policies that would help safeguard them from unsound political spending decisions.
- [The Green Canary: Alerting Shareholders and Protecting Their Investments (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GreenCanary.pdf#new_tab): A company that effectively discloses its political spending builds trust among shareholders and financial analysts. A company that fails to disclose risks making political spending decisions that can lead to financial losses and a compromised corporate reputation. The Green Canary explores the risks posed to shareholders in the absence of disclosure, and presents two methods
- [Hidden Rivers: How Trade Associations Conceal Corporate Political Spending, Its Threat to Companies, and What Shareholders Can Do (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/HiddenRivers.pdf#new_tab): Trade associations have become the Swiss bank accounts of American politics. Through them, corporations spend millions of dollars on political activities that can ultimately lead to a decline in shareholder value and compromise the reputations of corporations and their leaders. Hidden Riversuses case studies of hotly contested judicial elections to show how corporations, via trade
- [Handbook on Corporate Political Activity: Emerging Governance Issues (pdf)](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Handbook-FINAL-VERSION.pdf#new_tab): This Handbook on Corporate Political Activity explains the ways in which companies’ political expenditures may inadvertently invite problems, and describes concrete steps that companies can take to steer clear of them. It recognizes that companies will want to fashion their political spending strategies to fit their individual needs. Its central point is that thoughtful political
- [NYTimes DealBook: Lifting the curtain on political donations](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/NYTimes-DealBook-Lifting-the-curtain-on-political-donations-10-11-22.pdf): In the wake of the 2020 presidential election and riot at the Capitol, corporate giants have looked more closely at their political contributions and become more transparent about where the money goes.
- [MarketWatch: Lindsey Graham’s corporate donors find themselves linked to his controversial abortion bill.](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MarketWatch-Grahams-corporate-donors-linked-to-controversial-abortion-bill-10-13-22.pdf#new_tab): Why ‘everyone’s playing gotcha with political spending.’
- [Financial Times: Berkshire and Tesla resist making political spending disclosures](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/FT-Berkshire-and-Tesla-resist-making-political-spending-disclosures-10-11-22.pdf#new_tab): CME Group also an outlier as growing number of S&P 500 companies publish more information
- [RELEASE: 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index Published, Expanded to Russell 1000](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-CPA-Zicklin-Index-press-release.pdf#new_tab): Dramatic Gap in Political Disclosure and Accountability Between S&P 500 and Smaller Companies
- [STAT: ‘Window dressing’: Eli Lilly’s after-the-fact statement on Indiana’s abortion law sends a disingenuous message](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/STAT-‘Window-dressing-Eli-Lillys-statement-on-abortion-law-sends-disingenuous-message-08-11-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets: Corporate donations to GOP political groups boosted candidates behind anti-abortion rights laws in the states](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OpenSecrets-donations-to-GOP-groups-boosted-anti-abortion-rights-laws-08-02-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Cooley LLP: What happened with shareholder proposals for political spending in the 2022 proxy season?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cooley-LLP-What-happened-with-shareholder-proposals-for-political-spending-in-the-2022-proxy-season.07-11-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [LA Times - Commentary: Corporations supporting abortion rights? Their political donations tell a different story](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LATimes-Corporations-supporting-abortion-rights-donations-tell-a-different-story.07-22-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets: Corporate PACs contributed over a million dollars to lawmakers who opposed abortion rights bill](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Open-Secrets-Corporate-PACs-contributions-to-abortion-rights-opponents-07-14-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [STAT+: ‘A slippery slope’: Pfizer sells a contraceptive and donated to political groups that could come after the company](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/STAT-Contraceptive-makers-donated-to-political-groups-that-could-target-them-7.1.22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Washington Post Opinion: Abortion rights should be law, not a corporate perk](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WaPo-Abortion-rights-should-be-law-not-a-corporate-perk-6.30.22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Practical Stake Report](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Practical-Stake.pdf#new_tab): First Hard Look at Business’ Stake in Democracy, How Their Corporate Political Spending Puts It All At Risk & How Companies Can Best Respond
- [Background Report: Corporate Misalignment on Abortion with 527 spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CPA-Corporate-Misalignment-on-Abortion-with-527-spending-06-22-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [New York Times DealBook: Checking the receipts](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NYTimes-DealBook-Checking-the-receipts-06-28-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law360: GCs Wrangling with Tangled Fallout of Roe's Demise](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Law360-GCs-Wrangling-With-Tangled-Fallout-of-Roes-Demise-06-27-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial News: How a small group of BlackRock analysts speaks for millions of investors](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FN-BlackRock-Stewardship-6.23.22-cpa-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: There’s another reason companies should tread carefully with political influence — the stock market is watching](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MarketWatch-CPA-Zicklin-Index-expands-to-Russell-1000-6.13.22-.pdf#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum: The CPA-Zicklin Model Code of Conduct](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA----Harvard-Law-School-Corporate-Governance-and-Financial-Regulation-Blog----CPA-Wharton-Zicklin-Model-Code-of-Conduct---11-28-20.pdf#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Practical Stake Report](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/HLS-Forum-on-CG.Practical-Stake-report-post.06.10.22.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA to SEC: Don’t Undermine Corporate Democracy and Investor First Amendment Rights](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/cpa-to-sec-dont-undermine-corporate-democracy-and-investor-first-amendment-rights/): January 31, 2020 In a 12-page comment dated Jan. 31, CPA formally opposed rule changes under consideration by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would cripple small investors’ ability to seek policy changes from American companies and undermine their First Amendment rights. Using data and analysis, the comment concluded that successful disclosure agreements CPA has championed at
- [Washington Post: Stefanik echoed ‘great replacement’ theory. But firms kept donating.](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Elise-Stefanik-echoed-‘great-replacemen...s-kept-donating.-The-Washington-Post.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Smart Read](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-Financial-Times-Smart-read-on-CPAs-Practical-Stake-report-04-27-22-Moral-Money.pdf#new_tab)
- [Election Law Blog: “Practical Stake” Report Takes a Hard Look at Corporations Political Spending and Democracy](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Election-Law-Blog-CPA-Guest-Post-on-Practical-Stake-Report-05-01-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Practical Stake Press Release](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-Practical-Stake-press-release-04-27-22.pdf#new_tab)
- [Greenbiz: 10 climate NGOs companies should know](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-GreenBiz-10-climate-NGOs-companies-should-know-04-22-22-CPA-included.pdf#new_tab)
- [The ESG Beat with Bruce Freed](https://esgbeat.podbean.com/e/module-2-the-esg-beat-with-bruce-freed/#new_tab)
- [US companies under pressure to support voting rights push](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Financial-Times-US-companies-under-pressure-to-support-voting-rights-push-01-05-22-CPA-quoted.pdf)
- [How Corporate America Has Changed After the Capitol Attack](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-New-York-Times-DealBook-How-Corporate-America-Has-Changed-After-the-Capitol-Attack-01-06-22-CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [Managers Warm Up to Voting for ESG-Related Shareholder Proposals](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Fund-Fire-Managers-Warm-Up-to-Voting-for-ESG-Related-Shareholder-Proposals-01-06-22-CPA-quotedJ-2021-instl-investor-analysis.pdf#new_tab)
- [It's not all bad](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Politico-The-Long-Game-Investors-called-out-company-giving-in-2021.-01-04-22-CPA-institutional-investor-vote-analysis.pdf#new_tab)
- [Corporations Donated Millions to Lawmakers Who Voted to Overturn Election Results](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-New-York-Times-Corporations-Donated-Millions-to-Lawmakers-Who-Voted-to-Overturn-Election-Results-01-06-22-BF-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [US companies condemn election fraud ‘falsehood’ on January 6 anniversary](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Financial-Times-US-companies-condemn-election-fraud-‘falsehood-on-January-6-anniversary-01-06-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Investors Turning Up Heat on Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Agenda-Investors-Turning-Up-Heat-on-Political-Spending-01-10-22-CPA-citedJ-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [To Give or Not to Give?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Directors-Boards-To-Give-or-Not-to-Give-01-27-22-Douglas-Raymond.pdf#new_tab)
- [Navigating the Risks of Corporate Political Spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CPA-Directors-Boards-Navigating-the-Risks-of-Corporate-Political-Spending-1st-quarter-2022-Bruce-Freed-Karl-Sandstrom-column.pdf#new_tab)
- [BigLaw PACs Continued Giving To GOP Dissenters In 2021](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CPA-Law-360-BigLaw-PACs-Continued-Giving-To-GOP-Dissenters-In-2021-02-22-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Facebook, Google, Amazon and more marked Black History Month with fanfare — after donating to lawmakers who blocked voting rights bills](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CPA-MarketWatch-Facebook-Google-Amazon-and-more-marked-Black-History-Month-with-fanfare-—-after-donating-to-lawmakers-who-blocked-voting-rights-bills-02-17-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Top companies are undermining their climate pledges with political donations, report says](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/23/top-companies-are-undermining-their-climate-pledges-with-political-donations-report-says/#new_tab)
- [Cos. Undercut Own Enviro Goals With Political Giving: Report](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CPA-Law360-Cos.-Undercut-Own-Enviro-Goals-With-Political-Giving-Report-02-24-22-Hollow-Policies-report-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [When should business take a stand?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CPA-Financial-Times-When-should-business-take-a-stand-03-08-22-Sarah-Murray-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Exxon Mobil’s lobbying report sets benchmark, ESG advocates say](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Roll-Call-Article-March-10-2021.pdf#new_tab)
- [Disclosure of corporate political donations delayed](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CPA-New-York-Times-DealBook-Disclosure-of-corporate-political-donations-delayed-03-14-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Disney, DeSantis and the "Don't Say Gay" bill: A Florida showdown over money, power and equality](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CPA-Salon-Disney-DeSantis-and-the-Dont-Say-Gay-bill-A-Florida-showdown-over-money-power-and-equality-03-19-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Will AT&T start reporting when its political activity conflict with corporate values?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-Dallas-Morning-News-Will-ATT-start-reporting-when-its-political-activity-conflict-with-corporate-values-04-01-22-CPA-quoted-Model-Code-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [AT&T shareholders fight back](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-Popular-Information-ATT-shareholders-fight-back-04-05-22-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [What’s Happening with Corporate Political Spending Disclosure?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CPA-Cooley-LLP-Whats-Happening-with-Corporate-Political-Spending-Disclosure-04-05-22-Cydney-Posner-CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [In House Warrior: Navigating the Risk of Corporate Political Spending with Bruce Freed](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0G8NxWoAc0jf7ZOLEXoNrO#new_tab)
- [Hollow Policies: When Corporations' Political Spending and Emissions Goals/Policies Conflict](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/hollow-policies-when-corporations-political-spending-and-emissions-goals-policies-conflict/): Seventy-Five Leading Public Companies Undercut Their Climate Change Commitments Through Conflicted Political Spending, CPA Report Discloses At a time when climate change is one of the toughest challenges confronting U.S. corporations, many companies tout their commitment to environmental stewardship. But they invite public scrutiny or attack when money they spend on politics ends up
- [Hollow Policies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/hollow-policies-2/): Seventy-Five Leading Public Companies Undercut Their Climate Change Commitments Through Conflicted Political Spending, CPA Report Discloses Click here for full article in PDF
- [Hollow Policies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Hollow-Policies.pdf#new_tab)
- [Corporate Enablers](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/corporate-enablers/): Who are the leading bankrollers of voter suppression legislation? The report details corporate contributions and involvement in seven battleground states. Click here for full article in PDF.
- [Hollow Policies press release](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CPA-Hollow-Policies-press-release-02-23-22.pdf)
- [The Conference Board ESG News and Views: Corporate Political Activity, Opportunity Amid Scrutiny with Adie Olson and Jason Abel and Bruce Freed](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ug8uA4lm6SAQUe0SpXVtD#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: 2021 CPA Zicklin Index of Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Harvard-Law-School-Forum-on-Corporate-Governance-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index-12-18-21.pdf)
- [Law 360: Corporate Political Disclosure Votes Hit Record High In 2021](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Law360-Corporate-Political-Disclosure-Votes-Hit-Record-High-In-2021-12-20-21-2021-CPA-instititional-investor-analysis1.docx)
- [CPA's 2021 Institutional Investor Proxy Vote Analysis](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/cpas-2021-institutional-investor-proxy-vote-analysis/): Investment Management Titans Finally Come to the Table on Corporate Political Disclosure BlackRock, Vanguard Contribute to Record Large Investor Support WASHINGTON -- Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped to 83.5 percent in 2021, up from 75.7 percent in 2020 according to analysis based
- [New York Times DealBook: What We’re Looking Forward To in 2022](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/cpa-new-york-times-dealbook-what-were-looking-forward-to-in-2022-12-23-21-instl-investor-votes-on-cpa-resolution-cpa-quoted/#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Business appears complacent about US democratic stability](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Financial-Times-Business-appears-complacent-about-US-democratic-stability-12-22-21-Andrew-Edgecliffe-Johnson-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [JDSupra: Preparing for the Shareholder Proposal Season - December 2021](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Skadden-Preparing-for-the-Shareholder-Proposal-Season-December-2021-12-08-21-CPA-mentioned.pdf#new_tab)
- [Cooley PubCo: 2021 CPA-Zicklin Index shows steady rise in board oversight and disclosure of political spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Cooley-LLP-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index-shows-steady-rise-in-board-oversight-and-disclosure-of-political-spending-12-02-21.pdf#new_tab)
- [Roll Call: More companies disclose political spending after Jan. 6 attack](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Roll-Call-More-companies-disclose-political-spending-after-Jan.-6-attack-12-02-21-CPA-Bill-Laufer-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [2021 CPA-Zicklin Index Press Release](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CPA-Zicklin-Index-2021-Press-release-11-29-21.pdf#new_tab)
- [Politico: Corporate disclosure of political giving hits record](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-Politico-Long-Game-Corporate-disclosure-of-political-giving-hits-record-11-30-21-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law 360: Corporate Boards, GCs Tighten Political Spending Oversight](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-Law360-Corporate-Boards-GCs-Tighten-Political-11-29-21-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [Thomson Reuters: Record number of U.S. firms change tack on political spending after Jan. 6 attack](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-Thomson-Reuters-Record-number-of-U.S.-firms-change-tack-on-political-spending-after-Jan.-6-attack-11-29-21-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [New York Times DealBook: Exclusive: More boards are following the money](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-New-York-Times-DealBook-Exclusive-More-boards-are-following-the-money-11-29-21-2021-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Guardian: Can Harry and Meghan succeed in reintroducing royalty into US politics?](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-The-Guardian-Can-Harry-and-Meghan-succeed-in-reintroducing-royalty-into-US-politics-11-14-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg Law: ESG Proxy Proposals Land on Easier Path for Vote After SEC Change](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CPA-Bloomberg-Law-ESG-Proxy-Proposals-Land-on-Easier-Path-for-Vote-After-SEC-Change-11-09-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law360: How One Law Student's Political Passion Became A Career](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CPA-Law360-How-One-Law-Students-Political-Passion-10-28-21-CPA-profile.pdf)
- [Kaiser Health News: Pharma Campaign Cash Delivered to Key Lawmakers With Surgical Precision](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Pharma-Campaign-Cash-Delivered-to-Key-Lawmakers-With-Surgical-Precision.pdf#new_tab)
- [Insightia: GLOBAL ACTIVISM VOLUMES DIP IN THE FIRST HALF](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-Value-Walk-GLOBAL-ACTIVISM-VOLUMES-DIP-IN-THE-FIRST-HALF-07-09-21-CPA-cited-BlackRock-Vanguard-votes-on-lobbying-Insightia.pdf#new_tab)
- [Rolling Stone: What Insurrection? Corporate America Can’t Stop Bankrolling the Jan. 6 Sedition Caucus](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CPA-Rolling-Stone-What-Insurrection-Corporate-America-Cant-Stop-Bankrolling-the-Jan.-6-Sedition-Caucus-10-25-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Michigan Advance - Voter suppression legislation in Michigan boosted by company donations to Republicans, nonprofit says](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CPA-Michigan-Advance-Voter-suppression-legislation-in-Michigan-boosted-by-company-donations-to-Republicans-nonprofit-says-06-16-21-CPA-cited-1.pdf#new_tab)
- [Popular Information: How corporations give Republicans a massive financial advantage in state politics](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/How-corporations-give-Republicans-a-massive-financial-advantage-in-state-politics-by-Judd-Legum-Popular-Information.pdf#new_tab)
- [Popular Information - How to pull back the curtain on secret corporate political spending](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CPA-Popular-Information-How-to-pull-back-the-curtain-on-secret-corporate-political-spending-06-17-21-CPA-included.pdf#new_tab)
- [Agenda Week: What to Expect at Climate Engagement Meetings](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CPA-Agenda-What-to-Expect-at-Climate-Engagement-Meetings-09-07-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [CQ: Corporate Political Spending Scrutinized Amid State Controversies](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CPA-CQ-News-Corporate-political-spending-scrutinized-amid-state-controversies-09-22-21-CPA-quoted-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [IR Magazine: After MAGA, Brace for Shareholder Scrutiny of Political Activities](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CPA-IR-Magazine-After-Maga-brace-for-shareholder-scrutiny-of-political-activities-10-04-21-CPA-quoted-Index-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [Popular Information: A Small Step for Political Transparency](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CPA-Popular-Information-A-small-step-for-political-transparency-10-20-21-CPA-cited-SEC-appropriations-rider.pdf#new_tab)
- [Forbes: Energy Companies Caught in the Middle with Controversial Abortion Laws](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CPA-Forbes-Energy-Companies-Caught-In-The-Middle-With-Controversial-Abortion-Laws-10-20-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Conflicted Consequences](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/conflicted-consequences/): We pull back the curtain on company political spending where the consequences conflict with their core values and positions. The report includes the first breakdown of the sources of money to 527 committees that have reshaped state and national politics and policy since the 2010 elections. Click here for full article in PDF.
- [Collision Course Report](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/collision-course-report/): The Risks Companies Face When Their Political Spending and Core Values Conflict and How To Address Them We examine the heightened risks companies face when their political spending and core values and positions conflict. The report is the first examination of how the risks have been exacerbated by the rise of social media. Click here
- [Political Spending and Unintended Consequences](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/political-spending-and-unintended-consequences/): Big corporations have deep pockets and face few checks and balances, which means they have great influence. But, when a company’s political spending doesn’t align with its policies and values, there are bound to be consequences. Here’s an example: In 2016, North Carolina’s enactment of a controversial transgender bathroom law, HB2, brought high-profile news coverage
- [Support for Abortion-Related Risk Disclosure Wanes This Year](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Bloomberg-Industry-Support-for-Abortion-Related-Risk-Disclosure-Wanes-This-Year-CPA-resolutions.pdf#new_tab): Coca-Cola and UPS investors are among those rejecting abortion bids. Growing Awareness of risks from political, lobbying donations.
- [Power companies quietly pushed $215m into US politics via dark money groups](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Guardian-Power-companies-quietly-pushed-215m-into-US-politics-via-dark-money-groups.pdf#new_tab): Donations have helped utilities increase electricity prices, hinder solar schemes and helped elect sympathetic legislators...
- [Law 360: 5 Steps Cos. Should Take In An Era Of Political Scrutiny](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Law360-com---5-Steps-Cos--Should-Take-In-An-Era-Of-Political-Scrutiny---03-26-21---CPA-quoted---Conf-Bd-Under-the-Microscope.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law 360: Midyear Report: GCs See Record Votes On ESG Resolutions](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-Law360.com-Midyear-Report-GCs-See-Record-Votes-On-ESG-Resolutions-06-28-21-CPA-mentioned.pdf#new_tab)
- [CQ ESG Briefing: More companies disclose political spending amid pressure](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---CQ-ESG-Briefing---2020-CPA-Zicklin-Index---10-28-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [San Jose Mercury News: Special report: Two Giants owners lead Bay Area sports in campaign contributions — and they’re big Trump supporters](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---San-Jose-Mercury-News---Special-report-Two-Giants-owners-lead-Bay-Area-sports-in-campaign-contributions--mdash--and-they-rsquo-re-big-Trump-supporters---10-29-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Business Insider: We combed through records of 100 healthcare companies to see who their top executives are donating to in the 2020 election. They reveal a surprising trend.](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Business-Insider---We-combed-through-records-of-100-healthcare-companies-L-L----10-30-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Wall Street Journal: Few Fortune 100 CEOs Donate to Biden, Trump](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Wall-Street-Journal---Few-Fortune-100-CEOs-Donate-to-Biden-J-Trump---10-30-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Corporate Governance blog: Trump Legacy: Boom in Corporate Political Disclosure](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/11/02/trump-legacy-boom-in-corporate-political-disclosure/#new_tab)
- [Business Insider: Big corporations like BofA, Ford, and UPS want to bankroll Biden's inauguration. But the president-elect won't say yet whether he'll take their money](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Business-Insider---Big-corporations-like-BofA-J-Ford-J-and-UPS-want-to-bankroll-Bidens-inauguration--But-the-president-elect-wont-say-yet-whether-hell-take-their-money----11-19-20---BF-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Wall Street Journal: Capitol Riot Prompts Some Big Banks and Companies to Pause Political Funding](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Wall-Street-Journal---Capitol-Riot-Prompts-Some-Big-Banks-and-Companies-to-Pause-Political-Funding---01-10-21---CPA-quoted-and-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [Minneapolis Star Tribune: Best Buy suspends donations to congressional members who voted against certifying election](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Best-Buy-suspends-donations-to-congressional-members-who-voted-against-certifying-election---StarTribune-com.pdf#new_tab)
- [NPR: Tech Giants Join Corporate Reckoning Over Political Spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Tech-Giants-Join-Corporate-Reckoning-Over-Political-Spending--NPR.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Philadelphia Inquirer: Corporations recoil from eight Pa. GOP vote ‘objectors,’ suspending their money](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporations-recoil-from-eight-Pa--GOP-vote--lsquo-objectors--rsquo--suspending-their-money.pdf#new_tab)
- [Politico: A road already traveled](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/A-road-already-traveled---POLITICO.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Atlanta Journal Constitution: Coke, UPS, others freeze political donations after U.S. Capitol attack](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Coke--UPS--others-freeze-political-donations-after-U-S--Capitol-attack.pdf#new_tab)
- [Yahoo Finance: Marriott, Blue Cross, and Hallmark are just a few of the companies cutting off Trump and GOP](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Marriott--Blue-Cross--and-Hallmark-are-just-a-few-of-the-companies-cutting-off-Trump-and-GOP.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA's President Bruce Freed on MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber](https://us7.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=40bf5e49b86aa2f0454aafef6&id=5c4c831b4f#new_tab)
- [The New York Times: ‘An Epiphany Moment’ for Corporate Political Donors May Have Arrived](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/IBM-Doesnt-Donate-to-Politicians--Other-Firms-Should-Take-Note----The-New-York-Times.pdf#new_tab)
- [The New York Times: DealBook, Proxy-Season Politics](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-New-York-Times-DealBook-Proxy-season-politics-04-23-21-CPA-agreements-for-2021-proxy-season1.pdf#new_tab)
- [The New York Times: On Voting Rights, It Can Cost Companies to Take Both Sides](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CPA-NewYorkTimes-On-Voting-Rights-J-It-Can-Cost-Companies-to-Take-Both-Sides-06-05-21-CPA-quoted-J-cited-1.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law360: What Cos. Risk In Funding Pols Who Back Voting Restrictions](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Political-Funding-.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Hill: Few companies stick with pledge to shut off funding for GOP objectors](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-The-Hill-Few-companies-stick-with-pledge-to-shut-off-funding-for-GOP-objectors-07-09-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg: House Dems Seek SEC Rule on Political Giving Disclosure](http://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/house-dems-seek-sec-rule-on-political-giving-disclosure-2#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg Law: More S&P 500 Companies Disclose Their Money in U.S. Politics](https://news.bloomberglaw.com/corporate-law/more-s-p-500-companies-disclose-their-money-in-u-s-politics#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg Government: IRS Rule Change Could Aid Foreign Election Meddling, Critics Say](https://about.bgov.com/news/irs-rule-change-could-aid-foreign-election-meddling-critics-say/#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg Green: U.S. Businesses Say One Thing on Climate Change, But Their Campaign Giving Says Another](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Bloomberg-Green---U-S--Businesses-Say-One-Thing-on-Climate-Change--But-Their-Campaign-Giving-Says-Another---10-23-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg: GOP Lawmakers Hit by Boardroom Backlash for Bid to Undo Election](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/US-Companies-Cut-Off-Donations-to-Republicans-Who-Rejected-Biden-Certification---Bloomberg.pdf#new_tab)
- [Bloomberg Law: Activist Shareholders Score Wins on Election Spending After Riot](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-Bloomberg-Law-Activist-Shareholders-Score-Wins-on-Election-Spending-After-Riot-07-14-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: Here’s who America’s CEOs are backing in the Democratic presidential race](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-who-americas-ceos-are-backing-in-the-democratic-presidential-race-2019-09-10#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: S&P 500 companies are protecting themselves from today’s inflamed politics, study finds](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-sp-500-companies-are-protecting-themselves-from-todays-inflamed-politics-study-finds-2019-10-24#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: Not one S&P 500 CEO is donating to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/not-one-sp-500-ceos-is-donating-to-bernie-sanders-2020-02-13#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: Companies stop political spending after violent Capitol riots: ‘They’ve been playing with fire’](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Companies-stop-political-spending-after-violent-Capitol-riots--lsquo-They-rsquo-ve-been-playing-with-fire-rsquo----MarketWatch.pdf#new_tab)
- [MarketWatch: Shareholders fight to rein in risk by demanding transparency into public companies political spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---MarketWatch---Shareholders-fight-to-rein-in-risk-by-demanding-transparency-into-public-companies-rsquo--political-spending---05-19-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [RollCall: More companies publicly disclosing what they spend on politics, study finds](https://www.rollcall.com/news/campaigns/more-companies-are-publicly-disclosing-what-they-spend-on-politics#new_tab)
- [RollCall: Corporate donor backlash follows Capitol riot, but advocates question if it will last?](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-donor-backlash-follows-Capitol-riot--but-will-it-last.pdf#new_tab)
- [Roll Call: SEC rules could thwart political spending disclosure efforts](https://www.rollcall.com/2020/04/07/sec-rules-could-thwart-political-spending-disclosure-efforts/###new_tab)
- [Roll Call: Shareholders question corporate dollars supporting abortion restrictions](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-Roll-Call-Shareholders-question-corporate-dollars-supporting-abortion-restrictions-04-22-21-CPA-quoted1.pdf#new_tab)
- [CQ Roll Call: Political spending proposals gain traction in proxy season](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-Roll-Call-Political-spending-proposals-gain-traction-in-proxy-season-07-01-21-CPA-mentioned.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: US companies agree to lift veil on political donations](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/in-the-news/Agenda---Boards-Tighten-Grip-on-Political-Spending---11-09-18.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA in Financial Times: Do not stifle shareholder voices](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/FT-OpEd-11-24-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Top US companies increase donations to Democratic groups](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---Top-US-companies-increase-donations-to-Democratic-groups---09-27-20---CPA-cited--quoted-copy.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Big business is no longer the planet’s biggest problem](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---Big-business-is-no-longer-the-planet-rsquo-s-biggest-problem---09-29-20---Andrew-Edgecliffe-Johnson-column---CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Financial Times: Trump’s corporate trouble, CEOs keep their distance from the party of business](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---Trump-rsquo-s-corporate-trouble-CEOs-keep-their-distance-from-the-party-of-business---10-30-20---Andrew-Edgecliffe-Johnson-column---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Diehard Trump Republicans on collision course with US business: Companies reconsider support and funding for politicians who back overturning of election result](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---Diehard-Trump-Republicans-on-collision-course-with-US-business---01-06-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: US business leaders rue their ‘Faustian bargain’ with Trump](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---US-business-leaders-rue-their--lsquo-Faustian-bargain-rsquo--with-Trump----01-08-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Corporate America pulls political donations after Capitol assault](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-America-pulls-political-donations-after-Capitol-assault--Financial-Times.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: Voting rights becomes a new battleground for US companies](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---Voting-rights-becomes-a-new-battleground-for-US-companies----03-21-21---CPA-quoted-LJ-research-used.pdf#new_tab)
- [Financial Times: US companies amass political funding cash pile after Capitol riot](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Financial-Times---US-companies-amass-political-funding-cash-pile-after-Capitol-riot----05-25-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Salon: Corporate America is backing away from Georgia’s anti-voting bill — after funding its sponsors](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-Salon-Corporate-America-is-backing-away-from-Georgias-anti-voting-bill-mdash-after-funding-its-sponsors-04-13-21-CPA-quoted1.pdf#new_tab)
- [CNBC: Capitol riot reaction: Corporations and the future of political donations](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Capitol-riot-reaction-Corporations-and-political-donations.pdf#new_tab)
- [CNBC: Companies quiet on whether they will keep donating to GOP supporters of Georgia voting law](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-CNBC-Companies-quiet-on-whether-they-will-keep-donating-to-GOP-supporters-of-Georgia-voting-law-04-01-21-CPA-quoted1.pdf#new_tab)
- [CNBC: Disney, Geico and other corporations backed Florida lawmakers now sponsoring restrictive voting bills](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-CNBC-Disney-Geico-and-other-corporations-backed-Florida-lawmakers-now-sponsoring-restrictive-voting-bills-04-05-21-CPA-quoted1.pdf#new_tab)
- [Barron's: It’s Time for Boards and Institutional Investors to Act on Racial Justice](https://www.barrons.com/articles/its-time-for-boards-and-institutional-investors-to-act-on-racial-justice-51592527239?mod=hp_INTERESTS_economy-and-policy&refsec=hp_INTERESTS_economy-and-policy#new_tab)
- [Barron's: Corporations Are the New Activists After Capitol Riot. Stay Tuned for Proxy Season.](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/GM-Stock-Is-Rising-Because-Wall-Street-Thinks-Its-EVs-Can-Make-Money--Barrons.pdf#new_tab)
- [Barron’s: Proxy Season 2021 Looks Unusually Active, as Investors Press a Range of Concerns](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CPA-Barrons-Proxy-Season-2021-Looks-Unusually-Active-as-Investors-Press-a-Range-of-Concerns-04-16-21-CPA-cited1.pdf#new_tab)
- [Washington Post: MLB donated to Minnesota congressman who made racist, misogynist remarks](http://politicalaccountability.net/news/in-the-news/mlb-donated-to-minnesota-congressman-who-made-racist-misogynist-remarks#new_tab)
- [The Washington Post: Lawmakers who objected to election results have been cut off from 20 of their 30 biggest corporate PAC donors](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Washington-Post---Lawmakers-who-objected-to-election-results-have-been-cut-off-from-20-of-their-30-biggest-corporate-PAC-donors---01-19-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Washington Post: Five myths about campaign finance](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Five-myths-about-campaign-finance---The-Washington-Post.pdf#new_tab)
- [Washington Post: Activist shareholders pressing companies to disclose more of their political activity after Capitol attack](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Washington-Post---Activist-shareholders-pressing-companies-to-disclose-more-of-their-political-activity-after-Capitol-attack---02-23-21---CPA-quoted.pdf)
- [The Washington Post: American Airlines, other companies resume donations to Republicans who objected to election results](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CPA-Washington-Post-American-Airlines-other-companies-resume-donations-to-Republicans-who-objected-to-election-results-07-15-21-CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Washington Post Highlights Growth, Danger of Stealth Political Spending Through 501c4s (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Washington_Post_Highlights_Growth_Danger_of_Stealth_Political_Spending_Through_501c4s.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- As the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) has been warning, 501(c)(4)s and 501(c)(6)s -- non-profit "social welfare" organizations and trade associations -- are becoming the vehicle for stealth political campaigns. This development was highlighted...
- [Yahoo Finance: More tech companies pause donations following Capitol riot](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/why-more-tech-companies-halting-154605977.html#new_tab)
- [The Fulcrum: Big companies disclosing more could-be-secret political spending, analysis shows](https://thefulcrum.us/campaign-finance/companies-disclose-political-spending#new_tab)
- [The Fulcrum: Capitol riot prompts halt in corporate political gifts. Punishment, tactic or turning point?](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporations-stop-political-giving--but-it-may-be-temporary---The-Fulcrum.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Deccan Herald: Corporate America looks to penalise Trump, Republicans, for now](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-America-looks-to-penalise-Trump--Republicans--for-now--Deccan-Herald.pdf#new_tab)
- [Reset Work: Rethinking political spending, whistle blowing from home, air travel virus tests](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Reset-Work---Focus-on-Political-Spending-by-Businesses---01-13-21---Bruce-Freed-interview-with-Kevin-Delaney.pdf#new_tab)
- [JDSupra: Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler expected to be nominated as SEC Chair](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Blog-Former-CFTC-Chair-Gary-Gensler-expected-to-be-nominated-as-SEC-Chair-Cooley-LLP---JDSupra-copy.pdf#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets.org: Impact of corporate PAC promises may be limited](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Open-Secrets---Impact-of-corporate-PAC-promises-may-be-limited---01-14-21---CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets.org: Corporations rethinking PACs leave the door to ‘dark money’ open](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Open-Secrets---Corporations-rethinking-PACs-leave-the-door-to--lsquo-dark-money-rsquo--open---01-15-21---CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [Directors & Boards: Corporations Turn Away from Political Spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Directors--amp--Boards---Corporations-Turn-Away-from-Political-Spending---01-15-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Quartz: American democracy is still under attack— by corporate influence](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---QUARTZ---American-democracy-is-still-under-attack-mdash-by-corporate-influence---01-15-21---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Guardian: Number of US companies disclosing political donations reaches new high](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/02/us-companies-political-donations-accountability-cpa-report#new_tab)
- [The Guardian: BlackRock wants to contribute to society. Why not tackle secret money?](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/03/blackrock-society-secret-money#new_tab)
- [The Guardian: 'This is a war': Republicans launch bid to control election maps for next decade](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/22/republican-dark-money-groups-2020-election#new_tab)
- [Agenda: BlackRock Reveals View on Political Activity Proposals](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/in-the-news/CPA---Agenda---BlackRock-Reveals-View-on-Political-Activity-Proposals---02-04-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Philadelphia Inquirer: Vanguard, BlackRock lag State Street on some proxy votes seeking political donation disclosures: new study](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Philadelphia-Inquirer---Vanguard--BlackRock-lag-State-Street-on-some-proxy-votes-seeking-political-donation-disclosures-new-study---01-18-21----CPA-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [USA Today: Big businesses say they are responsible, but too often they fuel conspiracy theories](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-political-spending-and-rhetoric-do-not-match.pdf#new_tab)
- [Top1000Funds.com: How to avoid funding treason](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/How-to-avoid-funding-treason--Top1000Funds-com.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Boston Globe: Companies need to reevaluate the full range of their political spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Boston-Globe---Companies-need-to-reevaluate-the-full-range-of-their-political-spending---01-26-21---Michael-Porter-Bruce-Freed-op-ed.pdf#new_tab)
- [CNN: survey shows some of America's biggest companies still grappling with response to deadly US Capitol riot](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CNN-survey-shows-Americas-biggest-companies-still-grappling-with-response-to-deadly-US-Capitol-insurrection---CNNPolitics.pdf#new_tab)
- [ValueWalk: ICCR ASKS TO REFRAIN FROM CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/ICCR-Asks-To-Refrain-From-Corporate-Political-Spending---ValueWalk.pdf#new_tab)
- [Stanford Graduate School of Business: The Self-Destructive Downside to Corporate Political Spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Stanford-Graduate-School-of-Business---The-Self-Destructive-Downside-to-Corporate-Political-Spending---02-02-21---article-on-Corps-and-Democracy-Conference---CPA-highlighted.pdf)
- [CQ: Investors seek to reassess political spending at largest firms](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---CQ-ESG-Briefing---Investors-seek-to-reassess-political-spending-at-largest-firms---02-03-21---CPA-included.pdf)
- [STAT: By looking the other way, pharma money helped fuel a toxic political atmosphere in the U.S.](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---STAT---By-looking-the-other-way-J-pharma-money-helped-fuel-a-toxic-political-atmosphere-in-the-U-S----02-12-21---CPA-quoted-copy.pdf#new_tab)
- [Triple Pundit: The Risks of ‘Business as Usual’ Corporate Political Contributions](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Triple-Pundit---The-Risks-of--lsquo-Business-as-Usual-rsquo--Corporate-Political-Contributions---02-22-21---CPA--model-code-cited.pdf#new_tab)
- [Money in Politics: Corporate Money in Politics](https://podcast.calltime.ai/870364/7677685-corporate-money-in-politics#new_tab)
- [The Deal: Activist Investing Today: Freed on Corporate Election Proposals, Risk](https://www.thedeal.com/podcasts/activist-investing-today-freed-on-corporate-election-proposals-risk/#new_tab)
- [In House Warrior: Navigating Bi-Partisan Election Funding in the Age of Transparency With Bruce Freed, President of the Center for Political Accountability With Host Richard Levick of LEVICK](https://www.buzzsprout.com/995896/9068701#new_tab): Navigating Bi-Partisan Election Funding in the Age of Transparency: Bruce Freed, president and co-founder of the Center for Political Accountability joins host Richard Levick of LEVICK to discuss their latest report, Corporate Enablers and the challenges for companies trying to recommit to bi-partisan campaign funding after the events surrounding January 6th and the state election
- [Corporate Enablers](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Corporate-Enablers.pdf#new_tab)
- [Conflicted Consequences](https://www.politicalaccountability.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Conflicted-Consequences.pdf#new_tab): Leading public corporations and their trade associations have quietly poured hundreds of millions of dollars over the decade into political groups influential in shaping state elections and resulting divisive policy agendas. Conflicted Consequences pulls back the curtain on the large, little-noticed donations by U.S. corporations and their trade associations to these so-called “527” groups and
- [CPA Lauds New Conference Board Guidance for Companies Confronting Heightened Risks from Political Spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Press-Release---Conference-Board-report-Under-the-Microscope---03-29-21.pdf#new_tab)
- [2020 Largest Investors Proxy Vote Analysis: Large-Investor Support Jumps in Election Year](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/2020-Proxy-Vote-Analysis-Report-CPA.pdf#new_tab): The largest investors’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution jumped to 75.6 percent in 2020, up from 67.3 percent in 2019 according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Proxy Insight. This follows a comparatively modest 1.1 percentage point increase in support from 2018 to 2019.
- [Minneapolis Star Tribune: Minnesota's biggest companies open their wallets to political candidates, and risk](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Minneapolis-Star-Tribune---Minnesotas-biggest-companies-open-their-wallets-to-political-candidates--and-risk---10-24-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Directors & Boards: Sticking to Business in the Boardroom](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Directors--amp--Boards---Sticking-to-Business-in-the-Boardroom---Third-Quarter-2020---political-risk-in-the-boardroom.pdf#new_tab)
- [STAT: Pharma contributed to attorneys general who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---State---Pharma-contributed-to-attorneys-general-who-want-to-repeal-the-Affordable-Care-Act---10-20-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [E&E News: Bezos said warming is 'biggest threat.' Then he helped GOP](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---E-amp-E-News---Bezos-said-warming-is-biggest-threat--Then-he-helped-GOP---10-14-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Reuters: As U.S. politics heats up, companies seek to avoid controversy (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Thomson-Reuters---As-U-S--politics-heats-up-J-companies-seek-to-avoid-controversy---10-13-20---2020-CPA-Zicklin-Index.pdf#new_tab)
- [The Wall Street Journal: Chart of the Week; Politics Inc.](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA---Wall-Street-Journal---2020-Election-and-Business---Chart-of-the-Week-Politics-Inc----2020-CPA-Zicklin-Index---10-13-20.pdf#new_tab)
- [Statement on the Release of the 2020 CPA-Zicklin Index and Model Code of Conduct for Corporate Political Spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CPA-Zicklin-Index---2020---press-release---10-08-20---CPA-Zicklin-logo-2-.pdf#new_tab)
- [Fund Fire: Managers Increase Support for Climate Change Risk Disclosures (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Fund-Fire---Managers-Increase-Support-for-Climate-Change-Risk-Disclosures---10-12-20---CPA-quoted.pdf#new_tab)
- [Brennan Center for Justice: Tracing the Money Behind the Supreme Court Case Against Obamacare](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/tracing-money-behind-supreme-court-case-against-obamacare#new_tab)
- [Fund Fire: Managers Gave to GOP Groups Accused of Racial Gerrymander Push (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Fund-Fire---Managers-Gave-to-GOP-Groups-Accused-of-Racial-Gerrymander-Push---08-25-20---FT-publication.pdf#new_tab)
- [Moral Money: Companies’ climate rhetoric does not match their political spending](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/FT-Moral-Money-Company-Rhetoric-Does-Not-Match-.pdf#new_tab)
- [CQ News: Support rises for social-issue proposals at corporate meetings](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/CQ-Support-rises-for-social-issue-proposals-07-22-20.pdf#new_tab)
- [NYTimes Dealbook: A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t. What Gives?](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-Political-Donations-Clash-With-Company-Causes-NYTimes-Dealbook.pdf#new_tab)
- [Release: Conflicted Consequences](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Conflicted-Consequences-Press-Release.pdf#new_tab)
- [New York Daily News: Taking government money? Disclose your political spending: Companies should opt for transparency now more than ever](https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-taking-government-money-20200508-inu4noupqfg53iq3mjfebsuspe-story.html#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: Taking the Lead in Adopting Political Transparency in the COVID-19 Crisis](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/05/07/taking-the-lead-in-adopting-political-transparency-in-the-covid-19-crisis/#new_tab)
- [Corporate Counsel/law.com: When Overlapping Directors Sit on Boards With Opposing Governance Policies](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Corporate-Counsel-When-Overlapping-Directors-Sit-on-Boards-With-Opposing-Governance-Policies.pdf#new_tab)
- [Law.com: In COVID-19 Times, Corporate Political Spending Is Finding More Sunshine](https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2020/04/01/in-covid-19-times-corporate-political-spending-is-finding-more-sunshine/?slreturn=20200302113133#new_tab)
- [Harvard Business Review: How Business Leaders Can Champion Democracy](https://hbr.org/2020/03/how-business-leaders-can-champion-democracy#new_tab)
- [Financial Post: Climate Skeptic Asset Managers Face Pressure to Reveal Donations](https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/climate-skeptic-asset-managers-face-pressure-to-reveal-donations#new_tab)
- [CPA's Statement on 10th Anniversary of Citizens United](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Citizens-United-Ten-Years-Later.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Statement on 10th Anniversary of Citizens United](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/Citizens-United-Ten-Years-Later.pdf#new_tab)
- [MarketPlace: Some Democrats don’t want corporate money. That’s not stopping corporations.](https://www.marketplace.org/2020/01/16/2020-democratic-race-corporate-money/amp/#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets.org: More money, less transparency: A decade under Citizens United](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/a-decade-under-citizens-united#new_tab)
- [Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: SEC Proposed Proxy Rules Changes—A Risk to Companies, Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/01/03/sec-proposed-proxy-rules-changes-a-risk-to-companies-corporate-political-disclosure-and-accountability/#new_tab)
- [WSJ 2020 Election+Business digs into CPA's 2019 Mutual Fund Vote Analysis](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/WSJ-on-CPA-mutual-fund-voting-analysis-12-17-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [2019 Proxy Season Analysis: Mutual Fund Support for Corporate Political Disclosure Continues Steady Rise](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/2019-Mutual-Fund-Proxy-Voting-Analysis.pdf#new_tab): The largest mutual funds’ support for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution continued to steadily rise in 2019, to 56.0 percent from 52.7 percent in 2018 according to analysis based on the Morningstar Fund Votes Database. This increased support continues to build on the strong momentum of the 8.2 percentage point increase
- [The Brennan Center for Justice: A Trump Administration Plan that Could Boost Corporate ‘Dark Money’ in Elections](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-administration-plan-could-boost-corporate-dark-money-elections#new_tab)
- [CPA in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation](https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/11/12/the-2019-cpa-zicklin-index-of-corporate-political-disclosure-and-accountability/#new_tab)
- [BSR: The New Climate for Corporate Political Accountability](https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blog-view/the-new-climate-for-corporate-political-accountability#new_tab)
- [JDSupra: Report Finds Clear Trend Toward Increased Transparency in Corporate Political Spending](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/report-finds-clear-trend-toward-71292/#new_tab)
- [Newark Star-Ledger: Are you supporting Trump with that underwear purchase?](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi//files/CPA-Newark-Star-Ledger-Are-you-supporting-Trump-with-that-underwear-purchase-Editorial-11-04-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [MapLight: Facebook, Google and Amazon Pour Money into Policy Shops As Breakup Debates Rage](https://maplight.org/story/facebook-google-and-amazon-pour-money-into-policy-shops-as-breakup-debates-rage/#new_tab)
- [NJ.com: Trump era has made corporations afraid to donate to political campaigns](https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/10/trump-era-has-made-corporations-afraid-to-donate-to-political-campaigns.html#new_tab)
- [The Philadelphia Inquirer: Some Philly companies disclose political contributions. Others don’t. Here’s the score](https://www.inquirer.com/news/cpa-zicklin-index-wharton-comcast-campaign-contributions-political-donations-20191025.html#new_tab)
- [RELEASE: 2019 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Increased Political Disclosure in Era of Incendiary Politics](https://politicalaccountability.net/hifi/files/2019-Index-Press-Release.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Letter to Business Roundtable on BRT Statement (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Business-Roundtable---CPA-letter-on-BRT-statement---08-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [Responsible Investor: What’s the difference between spending on lobbying and on elections?](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Responsible-Investor---Whats-the-difference-between-spending-on-lobbying-and-on-elections---07-31-19---Paul-Hodgson-column.pdf#new_tab)
- [STATnews: Pharma contributions to politicians who support restricting abortions could reverberate](https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2019/07/24/merck-pfizer-jnj-abortion-republicans/#new_tab)
- [Rewire.News: The Corporations Funding the Group Behind the Country’s Most Extreme Anti-Choice Lawmakers](https://rewire.news/article/2019/07/10/the-corporations-funding-the-group-behind-the-countrys-most-extreme-anti-choice-lawmakers/#new_tab)
- [The Wall Street Journal: Rolls-Royce Looks to CTO to Reduce Carbon Footprint](https://www.wsj.com/articles/rolls-royce-looks-to-cto-to-reduce-carbon-footprint-11557179910#new_tab)
- [WSJ: Companies Make Room for Investors Pushing Climate, Social Issues](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/CPA---Wall-Street-Journal---Companies-Make-Room-for-Investors-Pushing-Climate-Social-Issues----05-01-19_.pdf#new_tab)
- [MapLight: Unleashed by Citizens United: Energy, Utility Giants Poured $60 Million Into 2017 Campaigns](https://maplight.org/story/unleashed-by-citizens-united-energy-utility-giants-poured-60-million-into-2017-campaigns/#new_tab)
- [OpenSecrets.org: In hyperpartisan political environment, major corporations stay away from controversial super PACs](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/04/major-corporations-stay-away-from-controversial-pacs20/#new_tab)
- [MapLight: Health-Care Corporations Flooded Political Campaigns With Cash in 2017](https://maplight.org/story/health-care-corporations-flooded-political-campaigns-with-cash-in-2017/#new_tab)
- [Harvard Study uses CPA-Zicklin Index in gauging "The Politics of CEOs"](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3355690#new_tab)
- [Fair Planet: WHY FOCUS ON CORPORATE POLITICAL SPENDING?](https://www.fairplanet.org/op-ed/why-focus-on-corporate-political-spending/#new_tab)
- [Dallas Morning News: AT&T peels off layer of political spending secrecy — thanks to pushy investors and the Michael Cohen fiasco](https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2019/03/21/att-peels-offlayer-political-spending-secrecy-thanks-pushy-investors-michael-cohen-fiasco#new_tab)
- [VIDEO: Bruce Freed on Board's Role in Overseeing Corporate Spending](https://boardroomresources.com/episode/the-boards-role-in-overseeing-corporate-political-spending/#new_tab)
- [NPR Illinois: Illinois Dark Money Group Will "Shine The Light" On Donors, Despite Problems](https://www.nprillinois.org/post/illinois-dark-money-group-will-shine-light-donors-despite-problems#stream/0#new_tab)
- [Boston Globe: GE is shedding more light on its political donations](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/in-the-news/GE-is-shedding-more-light-on-its-political-donations---The-Boston-Globe.pdf#new_tab)
- [Agenda: GE Opens Its Books on Political Spending](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/in-the-news/CPA---Agenda---GE-Opens-Its-Books-on-Political-Spending---01-11-19.pdf#new_tab)
- [Dow Jones Newswires: GE Will Publish More Political-Spending Details](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/GE-Will-Publish-More-Political-Spending-Details.pdf#new_tab)
- [Philly Inquirer: Vanguard is no friend to shareholders seeking more details on firms' political spending](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/in-the-news/Philadelphia_Inquirer_-_Vanguard_is_no_friend_to_shareholders_seeking_more_details_on_firms_political_spending_-_12-7-18_-_2018_CPA_mutual_fund_voting_analysis.pdf#new_tab)
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- [Chamber Fights Back Against Pressure to Disclose Corporate Political Spending](http://www.bna.com/chamber-fights-back-n17179918035/#new_tab)
- [Meet the Fortune 500 Companies Funding the Political Resegregation of America](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/rslc-redistricting-fortune-500-political-resegregation#new_tab)
- [Dark Money Helped Win the Senate](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/opinion/sunday/dark-money-helped-win-the-senate.html?ref=politics&_r=1#new_tab)
- [Election 2014: A New Level of Collaboration Between Candidates and Big-Money Allies](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/election-2014-a-new-level-of-collaboration-between-candidates-and-big-money-allies/2014/11/03/ec2bda9a-636f-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html#new_tab)
- [Are Our Courts for Sale?](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/opinion/joe-nocera-are-our-courts-for-sale.html?ref=opinion&_r=2#new_tab)
- [Which Big Companies Are Keeping Their Politics a Secret?](http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/09/24/Which-Big-Companies-Are-Keeping-Their-Politics-Secret#new_tab)
- [U.S. Companies offer more political spending detail: study](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-companies-politics-spending-idUSKCN0HJ08B20140924?irpc=932#new_tab)
- [Study: Major companies are increasingly disclosing their political spending](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/24/major-companies-increasingly-choose-to-disclose-their-political-spending-study-says/#new_tab)
- [Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, But Not Eager to Reveal It](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/upshot/tech-firms-and-lobbyists-now-intertwined-but-not-eager-to-reveal-it.html?abt=0002&abg=1#new_tab)
- [2014 CPA-Zicklin Press Release (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2014-cpa-zicklin-press-release/2014_CPA-Zicklin_Index_PDF_1.pdf#new_tab)
- [A Surprising Solution to America’s Dark Money Problem](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/07/18/corporate-america-may-have-the-answer-for-dark-money-transparency#new_tab)
- [The Unfulfilled Promise of Citizens United](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-freed/the-unfulflled-promise-of_b_4619365.html#new_tab)
- [The Conference Board Review: Navigating Politics (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/reports/cpa-reports/the-conference-board-review-navigating-politics/CPA_-_Conference_Board_Review_-_Navigating_Politics_-_Winter_2013_issue.pdf#new_tab): The elections are over, but the aftereffects of all those negative ads linger, both for shell-shocked TV viewers and for corporate donors that gave millions to put the thirty-second spots on the air. In boardrooms across the country, executives and directors are taking on uncomfortable questions about the money given to super PACs, trade associations
- [2013 CPA-Zicklin Index Press Release (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2013-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/2014_CPA-Zicklin_Index_PDF.pdf#new_tab)
- [2012 CPA-Zicklin Index Press Release (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2010-proxy-season-results-record-support-for-political-disclosure-sends-loud-and-clear-message-to-companies/2012_CPA-Zicklin_Index_Press_Release.pdf#new_tab): Although secret political money is surging, many large American companies have voluntarily strengthened their political disclosure and accountability policies and practices, according to an annual benchmarking study released today. In the first full election cycle
- [Political Disclosure Hits 100 Companies (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2010-proxy-season-results-record-support-for-political-disclosure-sends-loud-and-clear-message-to-companies/Press_Release_-_Political_Disclosure_Hits_100_Companies.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Letter Challenges Wall Street Journal Attacks on Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/1-06-12_Wall_Street_Journal_Letter_to_the_Editor_Press_Release.pdf#new_tab): The Center for Political Accountability responded to recent Wall Street Journal attacks on corporate political disclosure in a letter published in today’s paper. CPA chair John Milton Cooper, Jr. wrote that companies are not being silenced but “are responding to the...
- [CPA-Zicklin Index Press Release (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/Press_Release_CPA-Zicklin_Index_Publication.pdf#new_tab)
- [Mutual Funds Back Corporate Political Disclosure in 2010 Proxy Season (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/Mutual_Fund_Report_Press_Release_12-15-10.pdf#new_tab)
- [Groundbreaking Corporate Political Activity Handbook Sets Out Emerging Best Practices for Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/Handbook_Press_Release_11-1-10.pdf#new_tab): On the eve of the most expensive mid-term election in American history, The Conference Board today released a groundbreaking Handbook on Corporate Political Activity, co-authored by Center for Political Accountability president Bruce F. Freed and counsel Karl Sandstrom with...
- [CPA Finds Solid Business Leader Support for Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability in New Survey (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/CED-CPA_Poll_Press_Release_11-1-10.pdf#new_tab)
- [2010 Proxy Season Results: Record Support for Political Disclosure Sends 'Loud and Clear' Message to Companies (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/2012-cpa-zicklin-index-press-release/6-29-10_Record_High_Votes.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Unveils Database on Corporate Political Disclosure and Accountability](https://politicalaccountability.net/news/press/cpa-unveils-database-on-corporate-political-disclosure-and-accountability#new_tab): Washington, DC -- The Center for PoliticalAccountability has launched a new corporate political accountability and disclosure database to provide a valuable tool for the media, investors and the public and shed greater light on direct and indirect corporate political...
- [High Votes Show Strong Support for Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politico-pulls-back-curtain-on-the-secret-funding-of-501c4-organizations/High_Votes_5-20-10.pdf#new_tab): Washington - The Center for PoliticalAccountability applauds an exceptionally strong show of support for corporate political disclosure and accountability as Goldman Sachs shareholders voted on a resolution for the investment bank to report its trade association payments
- [CPA Receives Ceres Award for Its Pioneering Achievements in Corporate Political Accountability (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politico-pulls-back-curtain-on-the-secret-funding-of-501c4-organizations/5-5-10_Ceres_Award_Press_Release.pdf#new_tab)
- [Key Milestone Reached as Half of Trend Setting S&P 100 Adopt Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politico-pulls-back-curtain-on-the-secret-funding-of-501c4-organizations/4-22-10_Half_of_SP_100_agrees_to_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): Washington -- Two new companies have moved to adopt disclosure and oversight of their political spending with corporate dollars. Their action brings to 50, or half, the number of public companies in the trend-setting S&P 100 that have embraced the corporate governance...
- [CPA-CII Write to 427 Top Companies, Urge Adoption of Political Disclosure and Accountability in Response to Citizens United (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/CPA-CII_Write_427_Top_Companies_Urge_Adoption_of_Political_Disclosure_and_Accountability_in_Response_to_Citizens_United.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C., Feb. 24, 2010 -- The Center for Political Accountability and the council of Institutional Investors, joined by nearly 50 institutional investors and shareholder advocate groups, today launched a letter campaign to persuade companies in the Standard &...
- [Citizens United decision makes company political disclosure, corporate governance changes even more critical (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/Citizens_United_Decision_1-21-10.pdf#new_tab)
- [New companies bring political disclosure to nearly half of trend-setting S&P 100 (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/New_Companies_Bring_Political_Disclosure_to_Nearly_Half_of_Trend-Setting_SP_100.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA-Zicklin Center File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Protect Competition in the Political and Economic Marketplace (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/Press_Release-_CPA-Zicklen_Citizens_United_Brief.pdf#new_tab): Washington, DC - The Center for Political Accountabilityand the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at theUniversity of Pennsylvania's Wharton School warned thatlifting long-standing limits on corporate political activity andmore recent requirements for...
- [Political disclosure gains new support among S&P100 companies as 2009 proxy season closes (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/Political_disclosure_gains_new_support_among_SP100_companies_as_2009_proxy_season_closes.pdf#new_tab)
- [Politico pulls back curtain on the secret funding of 501(c)(4) organizations (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/cpa-cii-write-to-427-top-companies-urge-adoption-of-political-disclosure-and-accountability-in-response-to-citizens-united/Politico_pulls_back_curtain_on_the_secret_funding_of_501c4_organizations.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- An article in today's Politico exposed aneffort by the American Conservative Union, a leading501(c)(4) organization, to raise $2 million from private mailcarrier FedEx. The group said it would support the companyon a controversial piece of...
- [CPA warns that Supreme Court action threatens corporate political accountability, poses serious risk to shareholders (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politicocom-article-highlights-secret-corporate-political-spending/CPA_warns_that_Supreme_Court_action_threaten_corporate_political_accountability_poses_serious_risk_to_shareholders.pdf#new_tab): Washington, DC - The Center for Political Accountability warned today that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on June 29, 2009 ordering a new hearing of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission threatened a tidal wave of undisclosed, unaccounted for money in federal and...
- [40 Percent Vote at Citi Demonstrates Strong Shareholder Support for Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politicocom-article-highlights-secret-corporate-political-spending/40_Percent_Vote_at_Citi_Demonstrates_Strong_Shareholder_Support_for_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab)
- [Political disclosure hits 60 companies, including 40 in the trend-setting S&P 100](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/political-disclosure-hits-60-companies-including-40-in-the-trend-setting-sampp-100#new_tab): Washington DC - As the 2009 proxy season formally opens, the pace of political disclosure is accelerating as seven new companies from a cross-section of American business have agreed to adopt or expand their disclosure of political spending with corporate funds. This brings to 60 the number of companies embracing what is becoming a corporate
- [CPA, Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research urge Supreme Court to uphold political disclosure](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/cpa-zicklin-center-for-business-ethics-research-urge-supreme-court-to-uphold-political-disclosure#new_tab): Washington DC - The Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School called on the U.S. Supreme Court to leave in place long-standing limits on corporate political activity and more
- [19 Leading Financial Institutions Receiving TARP Funds Urged to Adopt Political Disclosure](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/19-leading-financial-institutions-receiving-tarp-funds-urged-to-adopt-political-disclosure#new_tab): Washington, D.C. – Warning that "gaps in transparency and accountability" contributed to the current economic crisis, shareholder advocates called on 19 financial companies that received more than $1 billion under the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program...
- [Sacramento Bee article highlights ballot measure spending abuses examined in CPA report](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/sacramento-bee-article-highlights-ballot-measure-spending-abuses-examined-in-cpa-report#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- An article in the Sacramento Bee yesterday highlighted the abuses of candidate-controlled ballot measure committees that were the focus of the Center for Political Accountability's recent Taking Initiative report. Released last month, the report examined how the committees were used to evade campaign contribution and spending limits in California and the risks
- [CPA, Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research call mandatory judicial recusal essential to avoid conflicts of interest](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/cpa-zicklin-center-for-business-ethics-research-call-mandatory-judicial-recusal-essential-to-avoid-conflicts-of-interest#new_tab): Washington, DC -- To "enable companies to act ethically without sacrificing their right to speak on important public issues," the Center for Political Accountability and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School called...
- [CPA Report Shows How Corporate Bankrolling of Ballot Measures Distorts Democratic Process and Puts Companies and Their Shareholders at Risk](http://cfpa.gethifi.com/news/press/cpa-report-shows-how-corporate-bankrolling-of-ballot-measures-distorts-democratic-process-and-puts-companies-and-their-shareholders-at-risk#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- In the wake of one of the most divisive ballot easure battles in American history, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) has completed a comprehensive study of how corporate bankrolling of initiatives can distort the democratic process and...
- [In About Face, Top Mutual Funds Support Political Disclosure Resolutions in 2008 Proxy Season (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politicocom-article-highlights-secret-corporate-political-spending/In_About_Face_Top_Mutual_Funds_Support_Political_Disclosure_Resolutions_in_2008_Proxy_Season.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- In a sign of accelerating support from the institutional investor community, at least 13 mutual fund families switched their votes in 2008 to support shareholder resolutions calling on companies to disclose and require board oversight of their political...
- [Politico.com Article Highlights Secret Corporate Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/politicocom-article-highlights-secret-corporate-political-spending/Politico.com_Article_Highlights_Secret_Corporate_Political_Spending.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Calls on US Chamber of Commerce, new c4 Groups to Disclose Questionable Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/in-major-expansion-four-leading-companies-widen-political-disclosure/CPA_Calls_on_US_Chamber_of_Commerce_New_c4_Groups_to_Disclose_Questionable_Political_Spending.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) called on the Voter Education Committee (VEC), an organization used by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to conceal its funding of political ads in Washington state, to drop its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of a...
- [Political Disclosure Tops 50 Companies (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/in-major-expansion-four-leading-companies-widen-political-disclosure/Political_Disclosure_Tops_50_Companies.pdf#new_tab): Washington DC - Reaching a major milestone, the number of companies that have adopted political disclosure and accountability reached 51, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) and its shareholder advocate partners announced today. Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU)...
- [Key Proxy Advisor Recommends Vote Against AT&T Management on Political Contributions Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/in-major-expansion-four-leading-companies-widen-political-disclosure/Key_Proxy_Advisor_Recommends_Vote_Against_ATT_Management_on_Political_Contributions_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab)
- [Shareholders Call Information Giant McGraw-Hill Hypocritical for (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/in-major-expansion-four-leading-companies-widen-political-disclosure/Shareholders_Call_Information_Giant_McGraw-Hill_Hypocritical_for_Blocking_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab)
- [Recent Developments Highlight Move Toward Secret Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Recent_Developments_Highlight_Move_Toward_Secret_Political_Spending.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - Two recent articles highlight continued efforts to hide political spending. One involves a suit by a conservative think tank to overturn West Virginia disclosure requirements for political spending in state races. The other examines the expanded use of...
- [CPA Calls on US Chamber Group to Drop High Court Appeal, End Fight Against Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/CPA_Calls_on_US_Chamber_Group_to_Drop_High_Court_Appeal_End_Fight_Against_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab)
- [Money, Politics, and the Corporate Agenda Big Business in the Political Process (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Money_Politics_and_the_Corporate_Agenda_Big_Business_in_the_Political_Process.pdf#new_tab)
- [New Companies Bring Number Adopting Political Spending Disclosure to 38 (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/New_Companies_Bring_Number_Adopting_Political_Disclosure_to_38.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - In a major expansion of company politicaldisclosure, Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE), United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) have agreed to report their trade association payments used for political purposes as part of their...
- [CPA Calls on US Chamber of Commerce to Disclose its 2008 Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/CPA_Calls_on_US_Chamber_of_Commerce_to_disclose_its_2008_political_spending.pdf#new_tab)
- [Use of Trade Associations, c4s as Conduits for Secret Political Spending Highlighted by Wall Street Journal (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Use_of_Trade_Associations_c4s_as_Conduits_for_Secret_Political_Spending_Hightlighted_by_Wall_Street.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) applauded the Wall Street Journal for highlighting the growing use of trade associations and "social welfare" organizations to hide political spending. In several reports this and last year, the CPA warned...
- [Fidelity Shift in 2007 Proxy Season Tips Scales Toward Corporate Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Fidelity_Shift_in_2007_Proxy_Season_Tips_Scales_Toward_Corporate_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - In an important development, top funds in Fidelity, one of the nation's leading mutual fund families, moved from opposing to abstaining on shareholder resolutions calling for corporate political transparency and accountability in 2007, the Center for...
- [Use of 501c4s for Secret Campaign Spending Underscores Need for Corporate Political Disclosure, CPA Warns (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Use_of_501c4s_for_Secret_Campaign_Spending_Underscores_Need_for_Corporate_Political_Disclosure_CPA.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - The emergence of 501(c)(4) groups as major conduits for secret political money in the 2008 elections reinforces the need for public companies to disclose and require board oversight of their political spending, the Center for Political Accountability...
- [Dell, Oracle Latest Companies to Adopt Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Dell_Oracle_Latest_Companies_to_Adopt_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- September 26, 2007. As 2008 proxy season plans get underway, shareholder activists announced today that Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) have adopted political disclosure and accountability policies. This brings to 33 the number of...
- [CPA Announces New Board Member (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/CPA_Announces_New_Board_Member.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- Shelley Alpern, Vice President and Director of Social Research and Advocacy at Trillium Asset Management, and Michael Petro, Vice President and Director of Business and Government Policy and Chief of Staff of the Committee for Economic Development, have...
- [CPA and the Zicklin Center at The Wharton School to Collaborate on Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Accountability Issues (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/CPA_and_the_Zicklin_Center_at_The_Wharton_School_to_Collaborate_on_Corporate_Governance_and_Corporat.pdf#new_tab)
- [Gaining Momentum: Number of Companies Adopting Political Disclosure Hits 31 (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/Gaining_Momentum-_Number_of_Companies_Adopting_Political_Disclosure_Hits_31.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Releases Primer on Corporate Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/CPA_Releases_Primer_on_Corporate_Political_Spending.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- The Center for Political Accountability (CPA)released today a primer on corporate political spending. As the CPA's primer sets forth, corporate political spending takes various forms. The report provides a definition that covers the most common types of...
- [44 Companies to Face Political Disclosure Shareholder Resolution in 2007 Proxy Season (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/44_Companies_to_Face_Political_Disclosure_Shareholder_Resolution_in_2007_Proxy_Season.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - Forty-four companies -- a record number -- are expected to vote on political disclosure shareholder resolutions in the 2007 proxy season. Based on Center for Political Accountability (CPA) model proposals urging companies to disclose and require board...
- [In Major Expansion, Four Leading Companies Widen Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/press/recent-developments-highlight-move-toward-secret-political-spending/In_Major_Expansion_Four_Leading_Companies_Widen_Political_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- In a major expansion of company political disclosure, General Electric (NYSE:GE), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) have agreed to report their trade association payments used for political purposes as part of their...
- [Monsanto, Verizon, General Dynamics Adopt New Policies for Political Spending (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Monsanto_Verizon_General_Dynamics_Adopt_New_Policies_for_Political_Spending.pdf#new_tab)
- [Eight Large Cap Mutual Funds Cast Proxies for Corporate Political Disclosure in 2006 (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Eight_Large_Cap_Mutual_Funds_Cast_Proxies_for_Corporate_Political_Disclosure_in_2006.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - October 10, 2006. In a significant shift, eight of 30 "large cap" U.S. equity mutual funds voted for corporate political disclosure resolutions in the 2006 proxy season, the Center for PoliticalAccountability (CPA) reported today. Previously, the major...
- [General Mills Joins Companies Disclosing Political Spending, Political Disclosure Resolution Leading Vote-Getter in 2006 Proxy Season (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/General_Mills_Joins_Companies_Disclosing_Political_Spending_Political_Disclosure_Resolution_Leading.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- General Mills (NYSE: GIS) became the latest major company to agree to disclosure and board oversight of its corporate political contributions. The company's move came at the close of the most successful proxy season yet for corporate political disclosure...
- [CPA Report Call Trade Associations "Swiss Bank Accounts" for American Politics, Hiding and Spending Corporate Political Funds and Heightening Risks for Shareholders (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Report_Call_Trade_Associations_-Swiss_Bank_Accounts-_for_American_Politics_Hiding_and_Spending.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - In a report released today, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) called trade associations "the Swiss bank accounts of American politics" for their role in helping companies conceal and spend over $100 million in corporate funds. This spending, the...
- [McDonald's, Southern Co. Latest Companies to Adopt Political Transparency and Accountability (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/McDonalds_Southern_Co._Latest_Companies_to_Adopt_Political_Transparency_and_Accountability.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Southern Co. (NYSE:SO) agreed to disclose and have their directors oversee soft money political contributions made with corporate funds, shareholder activists announced today. The groups, Washington-based Center for Political...
- [Shareholders See Risky Corporate Political Behavior As Threat to Shareholder Value, Demand Reform, CPA Poll Finds (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Shareholders_See_Risky_Corporate_Behavior_as_Threat_to_Shareholder_Value_Demand_Reform_CPA_Poll_Fi.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - An "overwhelming majority" of American shareholders express concern that company political spending 'puts corporations at legal risk and endangers' shareholder value, according to a poll released today. A similar majority want companies to adopt political...
- [Bristol-Myers Squibb and Staples Adopt New Policies for Political Giving, Amgen Board Endorses Political Disclosure Resolution (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Bristol-Myers_Squibb_and_Staples_Adopt_New_Policies_for_Political_Giving_Amgen_Board_Endorses_Polit.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS ) agreed to disclose and have their directors oversee soft money political contributions made with corporate funds. In addition, Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) became the first company whose board of directors...
- [Five New Companies Agree to Political Disclosure, Including Trade Associations and c4 Payments (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Five_New_Companies_Agree_to_Political_Disclosure_Including_Trade_Associations_and_c4_Payments.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), WashingtonMutual (NYSE: WM), Xerox (NYSE: XRX), Capital One (NYSE: COF) andAmerican Express (NYSE: AXP) have agreed to report their payments to trade associations and other tax-exempt groups used for political purposes...
- [Pepsico, Coca Cola, and Eli Lilly Adopt New Policies for Political Giving (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/PepsiCo_Coca_Cola_and_Eli_Lilly_Adopt_New_Policies_for_Political_Giving.pdf#new_tab)
- [CPA Finds Big Mutual Funds Continue to Back Companies, Hurt Shareholders by Opposing Corporate Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Finds_Big_Mutual_Funds_Continue_to_Back_Companies_Hurt_Shareholders_by_Opposing_Corporate_Polit.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - Twenty seven of 30 large cap U.S. equity mutual funds voted against political disclosure resolutions the second proxy season, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) reported today. Updating a Common Cause study of mutual fund votes in last year's...
- [DeLay Indictment Exposes Company, Shareholder Risks from Secret Political Contributions (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/DeLay_Indictment_Exposes_Company_Shareholder_Risks_From_Secret_Political_Contributions.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - The indictment of the No. 2 House leader for Texas campaign finance law violations underscores a much larger problem: undisclosed and unaccountable corporate political contributions invite corruption and threaten shareholder warned Bruce F. Freed...
- [Directors Mum on Use of Company Money in Judicial Wars, CPA Survey Finds (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Directors_Mum_on_Use_of_Company_Money_in_Judicial_Wars_CPA_Survey_Finds.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- Directors are strikingly silent as a leading trade association threatens to entangle their companies in the divisive judicial wars, the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) found in a survey released today. Indeed, most of the directors queried didn't...
- [Companies Dodge Social Security Reform But Still Fund Administration Push, CPA Survey Finds (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Companies_Dodge_Social_Security_Reform_But_Still_Fund_Administration_Push_CPA_Survey_Finds.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- A survey released today by the Center for Political Accountability (CPA) found that more large companies are reluctant, in the face of strong public opposition, to support the Bush administration's plans to overhaul Social Security. However, many of these...
- [CPA Asks Companies to Disclose Participation in Social Security Reform Effort (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Asks_Companies_to_Disclose_Participation_in_Social_Security_Reform_Effort.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) asked America's largest companies to disclose whether they are spending corporate funds in the Social Security reform debate. The Center's mission is to bring transparency and accountability to corporate...
- [CPA Applauds Two Major Drug Companies for Agreeing to Disclose and Account for their Political Contributions (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Applauds_Two_Major_Drug_Companies_for_Agreeing_to_Disclose_and_Account_for_their_Political_Contr.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) today praised Johnson & Johnson and Schering-Plough for agreeing to disclose and have their board of directors oversee their soft money political contributions. The CPA is leading a nationwide campaign to bring...
- [Directors Strongly Support Corporate Political Spending Disclosure, Question Whether Contributions Help Companies, CPA Poll Finds (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Directors_Strongly_Support_Corporate_Political_Spending_Disclosure_Question_Whether_Contributions_H.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - By strong majorities, directors expressed support for a set of reforms to bring greater transparency to corporate political spending. Two thirds (66%) of directors said that recent corporate scandals involving political activities have damaged the...
- [Secret Corporate Political Gifts Harm Shareholders, CPA Study Warns (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Secret_Corporate_Political_Gifts_Harm_Shareholders_CPA_Study_Warns.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. - The Center for Political Accountability (CPA)released today a groundbreaking report that found that corporate secrecy on political contributions harms shareholders by denying them information critical for evaluating management performance and company...
- [CPA Applauds Morgan Stanley for Agreeing to Disclose and Account for its Political Contributions (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Applauds_Morgan_Stanley_for_Agreeing_to_Disclose_and_Account_for_its_Political_Contributions.pdf#new_tab): Washington, D.C. -- The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) today praised Johnson & Johnson and Schering-Plough for agreeing to disclose and have their board of directors oversee their soft money political contributions. The CPA is leading a nationwide campaign to...
- [CPA Endorses Faith-based Investors Shareholder Resolutions Directors at Pharmaceutical Companies (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/CPA_Endorses_Faith-based_Investors_Shareholder_Resolutions_Directed_at_Pharmaceutical_Companies.pdf#new_tab)
- [Center for Political Accountability Urges Companies to Heed Shareholder Demands to Disclose Political Contributions (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-companies-to-heed-shareholder-demands-to-disclose-political-contributions/Center_for_Political_Accountability_Urges_Companies_to_Heed_Shareholder_Demands_to_Disclose_Politica.pdf#new_tab): Washington, DC - The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) today called on corporations to listen to the growing numbers of shareholders calling full disclosure of their political contributions, now that Republicans and Democrats are primed to pressure them to support "527"...
- [Require Altria to Disclose Political Contributions, Center for Political Accountability Urges Company Shareholders (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-sec-to-require-corporate-political-disclosure/Require_Altria_to_Disclose_Political_Contributions_Center_for_Political_Accountability_Urges_Compan.pdf#new_tab)
- [Center for Political Accountability Urges Wells Fargo to Hold Vote on Political Disclosure Resolution (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-sec-to-require-corporate-political-disclosure/Center_for_Political_Accountability_Urges_Wells_Fargo_to_Hold_Vote_on_Political_Disclosure_Resolutio.pdf#new_tab): Washington, DC - The Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a public interest group, urged Wells Fargo & Co.'s CEO today to let shareholders speak at the company's annual meeting on a landmark political disclosure resolution. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April...
- [Letter to the Editor - Omaha World-Herald (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-sec-to-require-corporate-political-disclosure/Letter_to_the_Editor_-_Omaha_World-Herald.pdf#new_tab): In an Omaha World-Herald article published on April 16, a spokesperson for Union Pacific Corp. claimed that UP's employee-funded political action committee, not the company itself, contributed in the last election cycle to Americans for a Republican Majority (ARM), a...
- [Center for Political Accountability Urges SEC to Require Corporate Political Disclosure (pdf)](https://nmcdn.io/e186d21f8c7946a19faed23c3da2f0da/5006ff10fe6f450fa2f1f01321ac6b5a/files/news/press/center-for-political-accountability-urges-sec-to-require-corporate-political-disclosure/Center_for_Political_Accountability_Urges_SEC_to_Require_Corporate_Politcal_Disclosure.pdf#new_tab)

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