Mississippi lawmakers have been loathe to enact meaningful reform, transparency or oversight of the intersection of politics and money. This has left the door wide open for corruption.
This leaves the door wide open for corruption. Mississippi's campaign finance and lobbying laws are extremely confusing, conflicting and lax, but that's almost beside the point. Alleged violations are seldom investigated or enforced. The attorney general's office appears to be the only state agency with clear authority to investigate and enforce, but it almost never does.
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