Talk:National Institute on Money in Politics

Correction
Samantha Sanchez and Jeff Malachowsky were the other founders and first co-director of this organization as noted here. Ed Bender is listed as a founding incorporator here and is the current director since 2003 (as noted in first source linked.) The infobox should be adjusted to reflect this, and the material from the organization's pages that I've linked can be used to expand on the history of the Institute. (As noted at my talk page I may have a COI in editing this article because I worked for them about 15+ years ago. Montanabw (talk) 23:40, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I changed Ed from founder to Executive Director in the infobox. I'm hesitant to show the founders in the infobox for fear of leaving someone out. Would be nice to see a comprehensive list of founders. wbm1058 (talk) 03:43, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Founding incorporators might do the trick.  Montanabw (talk) 10:15, 5 March 2017 (UTC)

This userspace draft should be merged in User:Anneftm/National Institute on Money in State Politics Legacypac (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2017 (UTC)


 * , I'd normally be interested but I am not sure if I should be editing this article much beyond wikignoming per a COI. Perhaps  could do so?   Montanabw (talk) 18:27, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * So I assume Anneftm is also a COI editor, which is why you want me to take a look. I don't work the WP:AFC beat, but this seems to me kinda like that. On the surface it looks okay to me, so I'm happy to merge but I haven't checked the references. If you want me to check the references first, then it may take me a while longer to do it.


 * Oh, I see. that was written over five years ago, so will need to check for stale, out-of-date information. As it entirely pre-dates the live article, I can WP:history merge, and then anyone can merge the old revisions into the current revision.


 * BTW, I hope they are looking into Ohio Issue 2; an independent report on that would be great! Our airwaves have been saturated with this for months already, and the election is still over a month away. PhRMA is pouring buckets of money into this, per my understanding, so I'll assume that if it passes that means bad news for their profits. wbm1058 (talk) 18:53, 27 September 2017 (UTC)


 * That would be cool (both of your comments) I don't want to be a weasel, and my COI is over 15 years in the past, but I was an employee.  So, I want to be super-duper careful on this one.  Montanabw (talk) 09:31, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Name change in July
I noticed the logo was changed and found this.

https://www.followthemoney.org/assets/Uploads/NIMSP-CFI-Announcement-May-8-2018.pdf

The National Institute on Money in State Politics (National Institute) and the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) jointly announced today that they have reached an agreement that will strengthen our democracy’s infrastructure.

CFI will go out of business as a separate organization in early July and reemerge as a division within the National Institute. The National Institute will drop the word “State” from its name to become known as the “National Institute on Money in Politics” (NIMP). Edwin Bender will remain NIMP’s executive director. Michael J. Malbin, currently the executive director of CFI, will be director of the CFI division within NIMP.

174.197.17.197 (talk) 10:32, 17 May 2018 (UTC)


 * When this happens in July, feel free to update the article with appropriate sources. No worries from my end.   Montanabw (talk) 17:10, 17 May 2018 (UTC)