Tribal Campaign Finance Disclosure

During a principal chief candidates debate between Michell Hicks and Patrick Lambert about a year ago, Michell Hicks called for campaign finance disclosure laws. It's a great idea. In fact I called for candidates for office to voluntarily disclosure their campaign finance donations and spending in an editorial while I was still editor of the One Feather.
Only one candidate responded, and it wasn't Michell Hicks. James "Butch" Sanders, a Tribal Council candidate for Wolfetown, who didn't prevail, responded to disclose his campaign finances, which came out of his pocket.
We can research who donated to the campaigns of President Elect Barack Obama and his challenger John McCain. We can do the same for Sen. Elect Kay Hagan and her opponent Elizabeth Dole as well as for Gov. Elect Beverly Perdue and her opponent Pat McCrory, Heath Shuler, who won a second term and his challenger Carl Mumpower and every other candidate for any elected office in the state.
However, we can't research who donated to Michell Hicks or Patrick Lambert because there is no tribal law requiring such disclosure. While Hicks was asking for something perfectly right and just when he made such a suggestion, his actions don't exactly show sincerity. This is a chief who vetoed the public information law when it was passed by Tribal Council, and his veto was based upon a presumption of some people using the law for less than honorable purposes. He's argued against requiring the tribe to disclose its federal campaign donations, and he also hasn't made tribal campaign finance disclosure a priority. The purpose shouldn't matter, either its public or it isn't, and that's how it should be with campaign finance.
I have a lot of questions over the last principal chiefs' election. Were tribal funds used to finance any candidate's campaign? Did Harrah's donate to any candidates running for office? They've made other campaign donations to candidates at other levels. Would it be a stretch to suspect Harrah's could have done the same at the tribal level, particularly to keep candidates in office who wouldn't push for an end to their management contract? How will we ever know?
It's well known the motivation behind campaign donations. It's to get something in return upon the said candidates' elections to office. That certainly was tribal government's intention for the donations it made. The same can be said for any donation made to Michell Hicks or any other candidate for any elected tribal office.
Regardless of any tribal member's intention in seeking information on any tribal candidate's campaign finances, they are tribal government's constituents and have a right to know.