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Representative Backer Supports Contribution Limits

February 20, 1997
By: Jung Wha Yoon
State Capital Bureau
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In the House, Majority Leader Gracia Backer has introduced her own campaign finance bill.

It makes a number of changes in current law...but it keeps limits on how much can be contributed to a campaign by any one person:

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Contents: Backer says important to keep limits. Missourians voted to have limits in place.

In response to Flotron's arguments that the limits have not worked, Backer citing her own campaign:

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Contents: Limits worked in her case. Maybe they didn't work in Sen. Flotron's race. Maybe he was able to take money some other way. But the $250 limit certainly did work. Need to be careful to not go over limit, keep documents and report those. Nothing wrong with that.

The house majority leader says that rather than repealing limits, she's working to make the finance reforms more effective.

Backer is sponsoring a bill to change campaign finance laws.

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Contents: Focus of legislation to reform finance disclosure laws, ethics commission law and to make easier for public to understand where we get money and how we spend it. And to make it easier for us to know how and what to report.

Backer's measure is pending in a House committee -- while the proposal to repeal contribution limits has passed the Senate and is now heading over to the House.

That all assures that campaign financing will be the hot topic this spring in Missouri's capital -- just as it is in Washington.

For M. Denise Jackson, I'm Jung Wha Yoon in Jefferson City.

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