Center for Justice & Democracy's new report accuses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of providing over $100 million and strategic assistance to local front groups in order to influence state level elections, including funding illegal smear campaigns against local candidates.
The report, "The Secret Chamber – The Inner Workings of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Hijacking of an Election," cites papers, emails and deposition testimony about the Chamber illegally funding a smear campaign against Deborah Senn for Washington State Attorney General in 2004.
Ms. Senn had a reputation for being pro-consumer after she took actions like adding alternative medicine to standard policies, working to protect abused women and children from their abuser even if the abuser was the policyholder, and enforcing the responsibility of the company for "innocent co-insureds".
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