Forget Congress. These 27 States Could Begin Dragging Dark Money Into the Daylight—Today

In the past decade, election spending by so-called 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups—so named for their particular section of the tax code—has spiked by a whopping 9,980 percent, from a few million dollars in 2002 to $256 million in 2012. Here at Mother Jones, we call this type of spending "dark money. via Pocket http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/08/dark-money-disclosure-27-states-new-york