Dougherty and Local 98 Begin to Cooperate with the Board of Ethics

If you read YPP semi-regularly, you know that John Dougherty and his union (Local 98) have been trying to overturn Philadelphia and Pennsylvania (and really, all of the US) campaign finance law. A couple weeks ago, one reason why they were trying to hide how they spent their cash became a little clearer.

It is not clear whether they are dropping their objections to our campaign finance laws, but this is promising:

...Despite a months-long legal battle, Ethics Board Executive Director said during a meeting today that on Monday a union official contacted him directly and invited him to come to the union's Spring Garden Street offices and review the vouchers. Creamer, and another staffer, did that for two hours yesterday.

Today - actually, during the ethics board meeting - two yellow envelopes containing still more vouchers arrived at the ethics board's Sansom Street offices.

So what do the vouchers reveal? Creamer won't say because he's not done looking at them. But he did say: " We hope their present level of compliance and cooperation will continue."

Good to see.

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