Terri Lynn Land (R-MI), GOP Senate Candidate, Accused Of Shady Dealings With Super PACs

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Terri Lynn Land, GOP Senate Candidate, Accused Of Shady Dealings With Super PACs

The Michigan Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Thursday seeking an investigation into whether U.S. Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land's campaign illegally coordinated with super PACs.

Land, a Republican candidate for the seat of retiring Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), told an audience shortly after announcing her candidacy in August that "it's going to take a lot of resources" to win and indicated her campaign "has talked to a lot of those folks," referring to super PACs or other outside groups, according to a video of the event first published by The Huffington Post in September. (Watch the video above.)

While super PACs can raise unlimited funds from corporations, unions, associations and individuals, the groups can't donate money to a campaign and can't collaborate on campaign strategies with political candidates. Instead, super PAC money must be spent on independent political activity. Land, in her speech, "indicated that her campaign committee has had substantial discussions with Super PACs and requested and obtained their commitment to make expenditures on her behalf," which would violate federal election law, the Democrats' complaint to the FEC said.

"The FEC should immediately launch an investigation to shed light on the full scope of Land's discussions with outside groups, determine which groups she has coordinated with, and find out whether any of the outside attack ads already aired in Michigan constitute illegal in-kind contributions to Land's campaign," the complaint said.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/terri-lynn-land-super-pac-fec_n_4697698.html