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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’.
Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of super PACs that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the 2016 campaign through such groups.
The plans, laid out by the partys top election lawyers in an emergency request filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday, would pave the way for the creation of a host of new super PACs tailored to individual House and Senate candidates.
But the filing also indicates that Democrats would, if allowed, seek to use tactics pioneered by Republican presidential candidates this cycle, helping prospective candidates establish and raise money for super PACs before they officially declare their intent to run.
Most strikingly, the lawyers are asking the F.E.C. to clarify how declared candidates, their campaign staff, and their volunteers can help court donors for independent super PACs even whether a candidate could be the special guest at a super PAC fund-raiser with as few as two donors. The commissions answer could have profound ramifications for the 2016 campaign, particularly for Democrats who, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, have been reluctant to engage too closely with super PAC fund-raising.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/us/politics/democrats-seek-to-expand-use-of-super-pacs.html?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)Citizens United ruling is horrible, but until it is overturned that is the playing field we've been given.
Rove and Koch and their vile ilk will spend gazillions on Lie Ads to smear Democrats in 2016. Those lies need to be answered. There are rich folk who are genuine liberal Dems. Why not get them to donate in order to fight back.
Of course the NYT would be for having Dems surrender. There's no change in hell Repubs will do campaign finance reform or work to get Citzen's United overturned. That means the NYT can keep raking in those Rove dollars.
elleng
(130,895 posts)How about Democratic PARTY powers that be?
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Find candidates with souls.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)There's a fucking brilliant strategy.
This is EXACTLY why we need Bernie.