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Super PACs are a blight on the electoral system and need to be eliminated. As Jillian stated, they are a method to funnel unlimited and untraceable cash to campaigns.
SuperPac donor names are required to be reported, by law.
thanks kosh. uber informative...So what exactly is a PAC? According to Michael Beckel of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit and non-partisan organization that tracks money in politics, traditional PACs represent businesses, labor unions or ideological interests: examples would be the Microsoft PAC, the Teamsters PAC and the National Rifle Association PAC. "An organization's PAC will solicit money from the group's employees or members and make contributions in the name of the PAC to candidates and political parties," Beckel says.
PACS have been influencing elections and campaigns since they first appeared in the 1940s, but there are limits to what they can donate in campaign and party contributions. The amount of money PACs can give per election -- meaning a primary, general or special election -- is capped at $5,000 per candidate. Additionally, PACs can give no more than $15,000 each year to a national party.
And when it comes to actually raising the money they can use to contribute to candidates or political parties, PACs also face limitations: Individuals can give no more than $5,000 per year to a PAC [source: Beckel].
Citizens can contribute money directly to parties and candidates, as well, but those donations also have limits. Every calendar year, individuals can give a maximum of $30,800 to a national political party committee, such as the Republican National Committee, and the ceiling for individual contributions to a candidate is $2,500 per election [source: Center for Responsive Politics].
Things have changed though. Now the emergence of Super PACs has the potential to fundamentally alter the landscape of money in politics, and also represents a sharp departure from previous restrictions on financial contributions. That's because as of July 22, 2010, the FEC green-lighted Super PACs all but eliminating the previous financial donation limitations. Thanks to the FEC ruling, individuals, corporations and unions can now contribute unlimited cash to Super PACs, which essentially means there is no ceiling to how much money is injected into elections.
The main prohibition placed on Super PACs, aside from having to report their expenditures and contributors to the FEC, is that they cannot coordinate directly with the campaign staff of individual candidates. (Regular PACs have to abide by these same mandates as well) [source: Beckel]. There is another key difference. Super PACs can't contribute directly to candidates the way PACs do. The money Super PACs raise can only be used for such things as creating TV or radio ads supporting or excoriating particular candidates.
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this is one of those lifelines to the audience t, like who wants to be a millionaire. i just came back from Cpac, so i've heard lot's of answers. wikipedia is always right though...It's like a regular PAC . But it was given super election powers in a freak accident .
I think it's just a political group, but they are limited in that they can't be controlled by a candidate .
So Cruzs PAC is for ted . And they can put out all kinds of shit and take all kinds of money . It's cool so long as ted doesn't have any say with them.
You can imagine the ways you could get around that little limitation.
thanks, can you point me to some regs somewhere ?? what was the freak accident ? is there any parallel between super pacs and super delegates. doesn't hillary have both ??
I'd start with Wikipedia .
And the freak accident was when a mild mannered PAC was bitten by a radioactive Justice Scallia .
i guess the hard to understand part j, is is how come it's ok for the democrats only ??every time there is a dust up, so many times the origin returns to the superpac.
the candidates say "we're not responsible for our super pacs". but are they in acceptance of that support initially, or ever ??
i know candidates are forbidden to interact, but the relationships are odd, to say the least.
do unions buy commercial time ? why doesn't anyone mention that some union dues are spent on what the union wants. can a republican union person get a rebate if the union supports a dem ??
do we really need government unions that play the government ? isn't that redundant ??
bernie excoriates superpacs, but takes a shitload of dough from unions, i' haven't had a chance to ask him about it, but i will.
this sort of came up on my curiosity radar again when i started hearing marco's and jeb's superpac ads become descendingly nasty.
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so many questions so little time.
any thoughts ?
what don't you understand?
they're organizations set up to funnel unlimited and untraceable funds to campaigns
thanks z, that may be the best answer i've heard yet. it's the nod and wink and guffaw that brings it home.Super PACs are a blight on the electoral system and need to be eliminated. As Jillian stated, they are a method to funnel unlimited and untraceable cash to campaigns.
SuperPac donor names are required to be reported, by law.
The donors are reported to the FEC. But the Super PACs can spend their money any way they see fit. And since their is no "Coordination" (wink, nod, guffaw) between the Super PAC and the candidates they support, it's untraceable to the candidates. That's why Lyin' Ted can act morally outraged about Trump. He dinnit know nuffin!
i donated to Trump. seems unusual, but i'm glad i did. i know the reason they suspend campaigns is to keep the dough. Trump give to veterans, that's why i did. and i want him to be president.However, if a candidate spent his own money on his campaign, he can pay himself back with donations to his campaign.Congress long ago passed a law limiting what candidates can do with unused campaign cash — in particular, they can't take it home with them.
Trump claims he is spending his own money on his campaign, but I bet dollars to donuts he will dip into the donations to pay himself back every penny.
sure clowny, i like to kill two birds with one stone if i can. are you counting union money ?was this part of the thing obama railed on the supreme court at the sotu when alito mouthed "not true".su·per PAC
noun
- a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates.
"in the 2010 congressional races, super PACs spent over $60 million"
do any of the candidates now take foreign money ?
didn't obama say he wouldn't take private money before he did. it's been so long since i've done my own tax return, do they still ask if you want to donate a dollar, but it won't actually come from you. i always thought that was strange.
Man..you are a monumental hack.
In your mind....this thread which YOU started.....is a way for you to express your disdain for Obama? Is that it?
Fucking nutbags. Liberals and conservatives both express a desire to reign in interest groups and shady campaign financiers. BUT....ONLY LIBERALS WILL DO IT IF GIVEN THE CHANCE. The fucking money is so lopsided in favor of conservatives....that liberals have had to play in the mud just to stay competitive.
Dupe.
every time there is a dust up, so many times the origin returns to the superpac.
the candidates say "we're not responsible for our super pacs". but are they in acceptance of that support initially, or ever ??
i know candidates are forbidden to interact, but the relationships are odd, to say the least.
do unions buy commercial time ? why doesn't anyone mention that some union dues are spent on what the union wants. can a republican union person get a rebate if the union supports a dem ??
do we really need government unions that play the government ? isn't that redundant ??
bernie excoriates superpacs, but takes a shitload of dough from unions, i' haven't had a chance to ask him about it, but i will.
this sort of came up on my curiosity radar again when i started hearing marco's and jeb's superpac ads become descendingly nasty.
.
so many questions so little time.
any thoughts ?
no one wants to comment on union money. i want my annual dollar back from the IRS.every time there is a dust up, so many times the origin returns to the superpac.
the candidates say "we're not responsible for our super pacs". but are they in acceptance of that support initially, or ever ??
i know candidates are forbidden to interact, but the relationships are odd, to say the least.
do unions buy commercial time ? why doesn't anyone mention that some union dues are spent on what the union wants. can a republican union person get a rebate if the union supports a dem ??
do we really need government unions that play the government ? isn't that redundant ??
bernie excoriates superpacs, but takes a shitload of dough from unions, i' haven't had a chance to ask him about it, but i will.
this sort of came up on my curiosity radar again when i started hearing marco's and jeb's superpac ads become descendingly nasty.
.
so many questions so little time.
any thoughts ?
Very simple
PAC: Let's support Ted Cruz by donating money so he can run ads. Donate up to the maximum amount.
Super PAC: Donate to us so we can run pro-Ted ads. You can donate unlimited funds.
