 ccrp poll undisclosed sources of political funding   new poll overview donors are shelling out millions of dollars to help produce ads and to help political campaigns designed to sway voters and to influence voters the question is who are the men and women funding these political agendas in michigan issue ads are given special protection under the law these commercials don rsquo t explicitly tell you who to vote for but they are designed to make you feel a certain way about a candidate and influence your vote governor rick snyder said this kind of dark money is dangerous because it conceals who rsquo s trying to influence policy and for what reasons maintaining secrecy has a great appeal to the donors some of whom write checks totaling millions of dollars you can easily find out if someone seeking a contract or favorable law wrote a check to a politician rsquo s campaign you can t find out who gives to these groups ads for candidates have the look and feel of campaign ads but were paid for with these secret donations a group that has put several them on tv is the michigan advocacy trust and if you want to learn more about who they are you can t the group is controlled by prominent republican richard mcclellan who has stated that he will never release the names of his donors and the law says he doesn t have to in 2013 michigan secretary of state ruth johnson tried to change that she announced that while she can rsquo t stop ads like these we can make sure the public knows who is paying for them new senate majority leader arlan meekhof didn t like that idea and was successful at stopping legislation that would have made that information public even governor rick snyder mdash who warned of the dangers of dark money mdash signed the bill into law and allowing secret money to flow in with no limits for the story from wxyz in detroit on this issue from wxyz in detroit click on the following link  http wwwwxyzcom news localnews investigations darkmoneydonations  new poll question do you feel the information regarding who donates to these secret groups for political campaigns should be made public yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link http wwwclintoncountygopcom content doyoufeelinformationregardingwhodonatesthesesecret  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the michigan legislature pass hb 5974 to change the formula for allocating michigan rsquo s president electoral votes yes 67 no 28 undecided 6 one comment was made on this poll comment 1 this is an improvement but this is an improvement but the best way would be to allocate electors based on the vote for president in each congressional district with the two at large proportional that would most closely represent the will of the people   all emails addresses  