It’s not easy to know who is funding the Colorado-based group known as “American Tradition Partnership” – and that’s fine with them. ATP is the group that has been successfully challenging Montana’s longstanding restrictions on campaign financing. Those lawsuits are not only changing Montana’s political landscape, but have national implications as well.
Paul Abowd is an investigative journalist with the non-partisan, non-profit Center for Public Integrity based in Washington, D.C. He has a new article out about American Tradition Partnership’s donors and affiliations. (You can find the article at http://www.publicintegrity.org) In tonight’s feature interview, Abowd talks with News Director Sally Mauk about what he found out when he began investigating ATP soon after they filed their initial suit against Montana last spring: