Try to let this sink in .... it was a fake super PAC. Wasn’t with DeSantis permission or authority. Spare us the lecture. Gateway Pundit should have done a little research on the guy and the PAC before putting this on their blog.
‘We were hoping to do like a formal TV campaign of air support when DeSantis officially launched,’ Thomas told DailyMail.com in an interview. ‘But the problem with that is with the Twitter Spaces blunder, like almost from the get-go, all of our major donors said, ‘let’s just see how this plays out.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12465943/Ron-DeSantis-50-million-super-PAC-CLOSES-donors-spooked-rookie-s-mistakes.html
It was no more fake than any other superpac. The pac had pledges totaling 50M but the donors were watching and didn’t like what they saw. They all backed out.
The superpac DeSantis has been illegally coordinating with is Never Back Down.
https://www.newsweek.com/ron-desantis-super-pac-never-back-down-2024-campaign-1824001
Super PACs are allowed to accept donations in unlimited amounts from corporations, unions, associations, and individuals. By contrast, candidates are restricted to donations of $2,700 from individuals per election cycle (there are two cycles per year) and cannot accept donations from corporations, associations, or unions.
Coordination between Super PACs, which can be formed without consent from a candidate, and political campaigns is forbidden.
Super PACs are independent expenditure-only political committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other political action committees for the purpose of financing independent expenditures and other independent political activity. The committee will not use those funds to make contributions, whether direct, in-kind or via coordinated communications, to federal candidates or committees.
A Super PAC becomes a political committee once its contributions or expenditures exceed $1,000 in a calendar year. After the committee crosses that threshold, it must register within 10 days, using the Statement of Organization, Form 1. A PAC may register and begin reporting before it exceeds the $1,000 threshold.