During a fundraiser for the pro-Obama Priorities USA Super PAC in
March, senior White House adviser David Plouffe gave a speech to
two-dozen major Democratic donors. When it came time to ask donors to
open up their wallets, however, Plouffe left the room.
The abrupt exit illustrates how the Obama campaign and the White House divide activities in the new world of Super PAC politics.
FEC regulations on Super PACs prohibit expenditures “made in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion” of candidates and their campaigns. The Hatch Act forbids administration officials from participating in campaign events.
The groups supporting President Obama’s reelection effort, however, are filled with former administration staffers and old friends who frequently visit the White House, and who give the campaign the ability to raise unlimited, secret funds—something Obama once claimed to deplore.
“Super PACs are making a total mockery of the anti-coordination rules of the Federal Election Commission,” Craig Holman, a lobbyist for campaign finance reform group Public Citizen, told Businessweek recently. “These are rules that are easily side-stepped, which throws out the entire notion of campaign-finance limits.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/distinction-with-no-difference/
The abrupt exit illustrates how the Obama campaign and the White House divide activities in the new world of Super PAC politics.
FEC regulations on Super PACs prohibit expenditures “made in cooperation, consultation or concert with, or at the request or suggestion” of candidates and their campaigns. The Hatch Act forbids administration officials from participating in campaign events.
The groups supporting President Obama’s reelection effort, however, are filled with former administration staffers and old friends who frequently visit the White House, and who give the campaign the ability to raise unlimited, secret funds—something Obama once claimed to deplore.
“Super PACs are making a total mockery of the anti-coordination rules of the Federal Election Commission,” Craig Holman, a lobbyist for campaign finance reform group Public Citizen, told Businessweek recently. “These are rules that are easily side-stepped, which throws out the entire notion of campaign-finance limits.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/distinction-with-no-difference/
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