Great! We’ve got to get up to speed on the laws for organizing PACs at the federal level and separately in each and every state. Ain’t gonna be easy but it can be done! We should organize at the federal level immediately to target the RINO Senators due up in 2012!
GRATE!
Susan Collins is up for reelection in 2012.
Not my area of expertise.. today.
Tomorrow may be a new story. I'm going to look DEEPLY into this, Texas laws specifically.
Let's not all go off like shotguns. Are there specific targets.. er, areas that need scrutiny?
I'm seeing:
1: PAC laws, State specific
Can we establish a clearing house / staging area for info and or planning?
Set of goals. Deadlines. Progress to date.
Can you designate someone to start a ping list, coordinate who’s researching the laws in which states, prioritize states by campaign deadlines and RINO targets, and assemble and disseminate information for the group?
We won’t get anywhere if we’re all running in different directions.
I love this idea! This is awesome.
Tex
"Federal multi-candidate PACs are limited in the amount of money they can contribute to candidate campaigns or other organizations:
•at most $5,000 per candidate per election. Elections such as primaries, general elections and special elections are counted separately. •at most $15,000 per political party per year. •at most $5,000 per PAC per year."
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However...The FR PAC can spend as much as it wants here:
"Contributions by individuals to federal PACs are limited to $5,000 per year. It is important to note, however, that as a result of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision in SpeechNow.org v. FEC, PACs which make only "independent expenditures" (that is, advertisements or other spending that calls for the election or defeat of a federal candidate but which is not coordinated with a federal candidate or political party) are not bound by this contribution limit."
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To get started this is the place.
From the Federal Election Commission:
Quick Answers to PAC Questions and where to download the "PAC Registration Toolkit."
http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers_pac.shtml
And
Quick Answers to Common Questions
http://www.fec.gov/ans/answers.shtml
And
"How to Create a Political Action Committee"
http://www.ehow.com/how_2077352_create-political-action-committee.html
I’m currently compiling a list of everyone who has expressed interest.
About a quarter of the way through it occurred to me it might
also be useful to sort by state.
Working on it, will keep y’all posted.