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</div><div><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3149260-GOP-SOS-Fund-Raising-and-Ballot-Initiative-Project.html#document/p24/a323964">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3149260-GOP-SOS-Fund-Raising-and-Ballot-Initiative-Project.html#document/p24/a323964</a></i></div><div>=</div><div><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MATCHING UP SECRETARIES OF STATE WITH DONORS TO TALK BALLOT MEASURES</font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Secretaries of State are charged with ensuring fair and accurate elections, but as the <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/us/politics/secretaries-of-state-elections-ballot-initiatives.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out;">reported</a> this week, under the leadership of RSLC, these state officials are working “to defeat liberal ballot initiatives on topics like the minimum wage, and to raise money from corporations that also wanted to kill these efforts.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Times reported that on May 3,</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> four Republican secretaries of state, Jon Husted of Ohio; Wayne Williams of Colorado; Barbara Cegavske of Nevada; and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kim Wyman of Washington,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> met with the </span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Restaurant_Association" target="blank" style="background: 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out;">National Restaurant Association</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to discuss minimum wage initiatives in Colorado, Washington and Ohio,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as well as minimum wage battles in Cincinnati and Seattle. The NRA is a proponent of the $2.15 tipped minimum wage and a major corporate opponent to Fight for $15 and any effort to raise the wage.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That meeting was followed by one with<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Reynolds Tobacco</span> to discuss tobacco tax ballot initiatives. What was decided at those meetings was not disclosed.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Times also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/24/us/politics/document-GOP-SOS-Fund-Raising-and-Ballot-Initiative-Project.html#document/p18/a324354" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out;">revealed</a> that the RSLC created tiered sponsorship packages that rewarded its largest donors with “private briefings with Secretaries of State,” and with regular ballot initiative briefings led by the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Conservative Initiatives, a project of the State Government Leadership Foundation, a “dark money” social welfare organization originally <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/big-corporations-put-up-seed-money-for-republican-nonprofit" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out;">seed-funded</a> by Exxon, Pfizer, and Time Warner, among other corporations.</span></font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RSLC SPENDING IN THE STATES</font></h3></div><div></div>