Nutter v. Dougherty

OPINION

Justice BAER.

We are called upon to consider whether the General Assembly, in enacting and later amending the Election Code,1 intended to preempt municipalities from legislating their own regulations limiting campaign contributions to candidates for *344municipal office.2 The General Assembly has enacted modest limitations on the manner in which interested individuals, political action committees (PAC), and corporations may contribute to the campaign coffers of candidates for state or local office, and no material limits on the sums that may permissibly be given to candidates. In an effort…