Oft repeated concerns arise,
1. Invitation for further lawsuits and DMCA take down notices by media corporations.
2. The trove of incendiary comments in your databases will be exploited.
3. FR’s advisory board is not of one mind, setting up a PAC charter on polcies id the PAC is a multi-issue advocate is going to problematic.
4. You already host the web forum for the Republican Liberty Caucus PAC, yet I have not seen any new freeper activity inside RLC in over 2 years.
5. A FR PAC would immediately put you in (friendly) competition with otherwise longtime associates on the right, be it for publicity, advocacy, donation dollars, web traffic etc.
6. Many Freepers are appointed, elected or career government employees, the FR PAC website and forum would have to be COMPLETELY separated from freerepublic.com or the government employees could run afoul of the Hatch Act. Also, freerepublic.com forum could be added to (more) blacklists used by government IT admins, this time with justification.
7. Crosspostings from the FRPAC website to freerepublic.com forums could lead to malicious prosecution under 11 CFR 104.20.
/not a lawyer, don’t play a lawyer on tv, and have been known to be wrong before.
Ping to post 95, your opinion please?
Congressman Billybob
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All of your points are correct.
So, WHERE do Freepers put their efforts? Why spread ourselves thin?
There are national PACs, I’m told, but it seems like FreeRepublic SHOULD ADOPT A SINGLE EXISTING PAC and point folks to it.
Suggestions? OK, FR powers-that-be... Get To It.
Good breakdown, something to think about.
[Mr] T