A trade union does not usually need to set up or use a political fund to finance lobbying.

You do not have to contribute to your trade union's political fund and have the right to stop paying at any time.

Q. How and when did you get involved in political fund raising?

"If the loan has been for secret political funds, how could I have done such conspicuous things?"

Another related problem was the secrecy surrounding political funds and their use.

Union members are entitled to opt out of paying into their union's political fund at any time.

Republicans said they were concerned that this lock on political funds by incumbents would continue.

He is a master at raising and dispensing political funds.

Currently no democracy provides for full transparency of all political funds.

It called for aggressive political fund raising from big firms, a strategy under which "those who give will get."