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To prove their candidate has strong moral values, supporters of state senate candidate Rachel Burgin are slinging mud at her opponent. With less than a month until the primary election, the political infighting is getting ugly. But, as Whitney Ray tells us, finding out who is financing the mudslinging can be difficult when political action committees are involved.

She’s may be the most socially conservative representative in the state legislature. Representative Rachel Burgin is running for state senate as a moral leader, and a political outsider.

But when her campaign looked doomed, it was the insiders who came to her aid. A political committee started by a lobbyist and funded by special interests, mailed this flier about Burgin’s primary opponent, shining light on his divorce and asking “Three women in 10 years, are these the family values of the Republican Party?”

The ugliness of the campaign and Burgan’s claims she knew nothing about the flier are raising question about where these committees are getting the money and why the public isn’t allowed to know.

“It’s as if the candidates are getting legal advice from the law firm of Winkin, Blinkin and Nod, when it comes to whether they are coordinating or not with all these secret committees,” said Dan Krassner with Integrity Florida.

Integrity Florida is trying to follow the campaign cash.

“We are seeing record level spending and more secrecy that ever before,” said Krassner.

Many political committees don’t have to report contributions until after the election.

“We need to get back to a level of accountability in campaign finance,” said Krassner.

Krassner is pushing for finance reform. He wants all committee contributions posted online within a 48 hour period.

Individuals can contribute five-hundred dollars to a campaign, but they can give unlimited amounts of cash to political action committees, and those committees often do the candidate’s dirty work.