For Some SuperPACs Backing Ted Cruz, It's Time To Unite Against Trump
Source: NPR
They have their specialties. One stages events where Cruz can show up, for example, while another does digital and social media. Three of the superPACs are funded mainly by one or a few donors. Keep The Promise III seems to depend heavily on donors who give through corporate accounts. It's confusing. Even the superPACs thought so – and more important, so did potential donors.
Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who runs Keep The Promise I, paraphrased donors' reactions: "Well, you have all these pro-Cruz superPACs, which one should I give to? Do the ones that are run by wealthy families even need my money? Which one is doing radio? Who's doing digital? Who's doing TV? "
To end the confusion, most of the superPACs now have consolidated under Trusted Leadership (emphasis on -ted), which itself is a superPAC. Conway heads up that one as well.
She said the alliance has made fundraising easier, as the groups solicit former donors to the pro-Bush behemoth Right To Rise and Conservative Solutions PAC, which backed Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/24/471762400/ted-cruz-banks-on-alliance-of-superpacs-in-race-against-donald-trump
Okay, I though that to be legal, the SuperPACs could not coordinate with a candidate's campaign. Yet, you now have a Ted Cruz "alliance" and Ted Cruz just happens to show up at alliance events?
Just think, if we could only get a Democratic appointee, perhaps Citizens United can be overturned.