"“If I get up on my tippie toes, I'm taller than all of you and can pee higher than Carley"
Posted on 10/26/2015 4:08:32 PM PDT by jimbo123
Former Florida Jeb Bush on Sunday night was the "special guest" at an event hosted by Right to Rise, the super PAC supporting Bush's 2016 campaign.
Bush's appearance at the event illustrated just how closely a candidate can work alongside a super PAC campaigning on his behalf, even though any official "coordination" between a super PAC and an electoral candidate is illegal.
The Right to Rise event, a retreat for its top donors, was incidentally held in the same Houston hotel where the Bush campaign was hunkered down for the weekend.
"We have our own invitations, they're in different spots," Right to Rise attorney Charlie Spies said.
Additionally, Spies said, Bush did not ask the donors there for money. However, there was a monetary requirement for attending.
Federal Election Commission rules bar super PACS from coordinating with candidates, but they do allow a candidate to attend a super PAC event -- as long as he or she doesn't directly ask the donors there for more than $5,000 a person. Larry Noble, senior counsel at the Campaign Legal Center and former general counsel for the FEC, told CBS News in May that this rule is an example of "the absurdity of the FEC." Bush has appeared as a "special guest" at Right to Rise events before, and other candidates like Democrat Hillary Clinton have also appeared at super PAC events.
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aka....bring your check book!
"“If I get up on my tippie toes, I'm taller than all of you and can pee higher than Carley"
"Thank you, thank you, I just flew in from Maine and boy are my arms tired."
nah, it’s ok, it’s a Bush. or a Clinton. then it doesn’t count.
what happened to the rumors he was gonna back out today,
BlackFemaleArmy is going to have some answering to do :)
I’ll forgive her this time. Her articles posted are usually true.
Jeb doesn’t want to be President, does he? This is illegal as Hell.
“Former Florida”? Wow, I had no idea he *was* Florida!
Bush isn’t going to back out until all of the donor money is spent and the associated advertising commissions and other vendor kickbacks are in his cronies’ pockets.
I’m for enforcing the law equally, though Dems will never have to follow the law.
But because the law will never be enforced equally, once we get past this election season they should do a massive re-write of the law, and simplify it. Most of the McCain-Feingold stuff has been a disaster. It has only made it that much more difficult to track political money, brought lawyers into every step of the process, and turned the process into a giant fiction.
I W#$@#$@$#ING HATE THAT FAMILY!!
voodoo economics - daddy Bush’s made that up.
also “read my lips”
Explosive deficit and ill handled war - GW did those
thinks he’s Mexican and even put it down once on a form - Jeb Bush
I can’t.
Jeb Bush, professional asshole and general limp dick. Why shouldn't he be the next president of the United States? It's never stopped anyone before.
Maybe like Lerner, Hillary, Cheryl MIlls, Cummings, Sharpton, Farrakkan... he knows he won't get in any trouble over it.
Jeb Bush is making all the wrong turns!!! Jeb Bush cannot stand on his own two feet!!! He needs his PAC and his his brother, George W. Bush to help him stand...He cannot stand alone as a great leader should, when times get tough!!!
Whimp is what he should be called...not a POTUS candidate!!! GW Bush said nary a word as Obama destroyed the USA economy & country...and, now he comes out and mouths for his weak sister, brother Jeb!!! I do not think American voters will take kindly to that!!!
Jeb if he was true to himself would have gracefully bowed out of the POTUS race with dignity and head held high. Now he grovels in the dirt of his own making...and sinks futher into the abyss of failure!!! Give it up Jeb, while you can still walk away with some self-worth!!!
Are they having tryouts for the Special Olympics?
Jeb is certainly not handling his demise with any kind of class.
I wonder if his donors are entitled to a refund... hehehehehe.
Are there any restrictions on super PACs?
Yes. The most important restriction prohibits super PACs from working in conjunction with the candidates they’re supporting. According to the Federal Election Commission, super PACs cannot spend money “in concert or cooperation with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, the candidate’s campaign or a political party.”
I don’t know if this happened Sunday with Bush, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it did....
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