How a super PAC plans to coordinate directly with Hillary Clinton’s campaign

[cali]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.

On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The group’s move was first reported by the New York Times.

That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with a candidate or political party. Several said the relationship between the campaign and the super PAC would test the legal limits.


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“The Internet exemption wasn’t meant for a political committee to raise unlimited money in coordination with a candidate,” said Larry Noble, senior counsel at the Campaign Legal Center. “It was meant for bloggers. It was not intended to be this massive operation where you are outsourcing your rapid response team.”

Fred Wertheimer, president of the advocacy group Democracy 21, said “it certainly looks like this new operation will violate the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which prevents an entity set up by a candidate or acting on behalf of a candidate, from raising or spending unlimited contributions, or soft money.”

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/

I understand Clinton's need to go the super-pac route, but I wish she weren't skating as close to the brink as bush. I'm sorry that she isn't following the template set by President Obama in 2012 where his campaign kept at least a semblance of distance between the campaign and a super-pac.

And we should just scrap the FCC. It's a fucking joke at this point.

[trumad]

1. Good for her...

Koch

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. You're on a roll...

[boston bean]

2. "semblance" a good word to use..

the outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different.

[cali]

3. you know, it's entirely possible to support Clinton and still recognize

the dangers of these practices: (and I'm not saying her campaign is doing anything different from bush and other republicans) a bad precedent is being set, these practices run counter to the intent of the law, they further diminish the FEC.

This big money post CU world is dangerous to our democracy. Refusing to recognize that because one's candidate is engaging in these practices, is just pitiful- and cherry picking one word out of the article is inane.

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. Another morning, another BS Clinton attack

[trumad]

6. yawn

[geek tragedy]

7. Notice how much press this gets whereas Jeb Bush going even further raised few eyebrows.

I wonder why Clinton isn't talking to the press?

Let's repeal/overturn Citizens United so playing within the rules doesn't include this.

[hootinholler]

8. Did you mean the FEC?

I love the Harrow crowd being so supportive of this.