Don’t be so sure.
The PR firm could have done this ‘pro bono’, so to speak.
Therefore the Obomer campaign staff can say they didn’t
‘hire’ the pr firm.
That’s what Dr. Shackleford spent so much time and ink teasing out. The question of whether this was a private family project or whether they were using paid employees on company time and whether or not they were coordinating with David Axelrod’s firms and whether or not they were being paid surreptitiously by the campaign itself or one of the 527’s indirectly.
That, and the fact that the FEC is essentially toothless are enough to make your head spin.