You’re the idjit, dumbass. Citizens United made it illegal for SuperPacs and Candidates to coordinate how to spend MONEY. Get a couple brain cells and rub them together. You can’t so let me spoon feed you.
The Citizens United decision made it possible for super PACs to collect unlimited corporate, union and individual contributions as long as they did not coordinate with candidates to determine how to spend the money.
Candidates believe they can share information with super PACs or other outside groups if that information is relayed in a public setting.
Candidates and super PACs can also communicate through the press. The Cruz campaign did precisely this when anonymous Cruz advisors told Politico they were dismayed by the lack of advertising from the quartet of super PACs created to support him.
“I assume they’re waiting so their media buyers make the highest commission,” a Cruz advisor told Politico. The strategically placed complaint apparently came about because one pro-Cruz super PAC worried about coordinating with the campaign. According to CNN, Keep the Promise I super PAC was planning a series of biographical advertising spots in South Carolina using the b-roll from Cruz’ Senate account — until lawyers stepped in to say that using the footage could run afoul of the coordination statutes.
One of the Cruz super PACs, Keep the Promise III, heard the call. The group made a tiny ad buy of $3,700 for 14 spots on the local CBS station in Davenport, Iowa, from Nov. 16-25.
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There’s so much more including the actual FEC findings but you’re probably too stupid to actually look it all up yourself. And yes, it addresses the FEC position on candidates attending FEC events.
My favorite part of your incoherent post is when you point out how Ted had anything to do with the Melania ad.
You took the time to write that whole mess which had NOTHING to do with the topic at hand.