Last week’s Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance Disposition Agreement exposing the practices of dark-money-front Families for Excellent Schools was so consequential that it will take months to fully comprehend. Its effects are rippling through the nation. Here are my thoughts and observations about what may be some of the significant aftershocks.
Families for Excellent Schools gets the death penalty.
There has been plenty of attention to the record breaking $426,000 fine imposed on Families for Excellent Schools Advocacy, the political arm of FES. More important and of lasting consequence is this, from the Disposition Agreement: “FESA agrees that it will begin the dissolution process of its designation as a 501(c)(4) organization upon execution of this agreement.”