From Stark
In this report from the Sunlight Foundation, Bill Allison outlines plans for a new Republican “SuperPAC.” Apparently the SuperPAC would siphon off political contributions to local, state and federal Republican candidates that are above legal limits.
Instead of having to reject those contributions, the candidates could ship the excess money to the SuperPAC, which could then legally spend that money for independent efforts on behalf of candidates. As long as those efforts are not coordinated with or controlled by the candidate, this apparently would be legal under recent Supreme Court rulings.
It’s either they are playing catch up or just trying not to get skunked again:
“US President Barack Obama has declared himself a candidate for re-election in 2012…
Obama’s announcement, made through an email and video sent to supporters, set in motion a plan to tap donors and raise as much as US$1 billion (NZ$1.3b), which would shatter the US$750 million (NZ$977m) campaign finance record he set in 2008…..
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/4847991/Obamas-billion-dollar-re-election-campaign
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
Hah !
“…As long as those efforts are not coordinated with or controlled by the candidate, this apparently would be legal…”
Call me a whistle blower, but this law is actually obeyed about as fully as the law against sharing bootlegged software, or the law against prostitution or marijuana.
Why even have campaign limits, if the system is so routinely gamed?
I like Steve Cobert’s PAC. What do you think? Deep dive, now.
Sure cure….Public Campaign Financing….level the field and compel candidates to use logic and fact rather than fear and prejudice to divide us…..
…..but can’t fault Obama because now that the activist conservative Supreme Court jesters have opened the can of worms for even bigger corporate money, it will take huge amounts to overcome the abject ignorance spread by the money men who are the epitome of Flim Flam…
The key legal issue is an absence of coordination. By agreeing to send extra funds to the superpac in exchange for IEP’s, there is a paper trail of coordination. This seems like a clear case of coordination.
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