Like many of you, I'm sure, our Inbox is being increasingly flooded with pro-GOP Establishment campaign propaganda. The current stooge, being Mitt Romney. The ads for your vote are more devoted to trashing Obama (that's OK), but offer Romney as a viable alternative stand-in to restore America's liberty. What do you think?
The Romney campaign seems to be pulling out all stops to win back "lesser evil" sympathizers on the internet. We would like to know of other fronts you may have encountered. You can post your authenticated evidence in the Comments below. If accepted, we will append to this list:
Here're are two just today from people who should know better:
By Aug. 6, 2010, groups registered as social welfare organizations, or 501(c)(4)s, as well as super PACs funded entirely by them, had reported spending $8.5 million. That figure has soared to $24.9 million in this cycle.
In 2008, nondisclosing groups reported spending $8.3 million at this point in the campaign season.
In addition, the numbers show a clear break from those of previous cycles in that
independent expenditures
(ads explicitly calling for the election or defeat of a particular
candidate) make up the vast majority of the spending reported by
nondisclosing groups. Spending for electioneering communications --
"issue ads" that name a federal candidate and are run within a 60-day
window before a general election, or 30 days before a primary or a
national party nominating convention -- has fallen as a share of the
total.
That trend is due in part to a U.S. District Court decision March 30 in the case Van Hollen v. FEC,
which requires tax-exempt organizations making electioneering
communications to disclose "each donor who donated an amount aggregating
$1,000 or more to the person making the disbursement." After the
decision, some big spenders like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
which had previously produced only issue ads, changed tack and began
running ads that explicitly advocate for or against candidates. As a
result, the group can continue to avoid disclosing its donors.
Any group claiming 501(c)(4) status under the Internal Revenue Code is supposed to spend less than half its budget on political activity, such as independent expenditures. However, as OpenSecrets Blog has described, some groups spend much of their money on issue ads, and also fund other tax-exempt groups with similar political philosophies that in turn spend their money on advertising...Read more from OpenSecrets>> Spending Reported by Nondisclosing Groups Well Ahead of 2010 - OpenSecrets Blog
The Romney campaign seems to be pulling out all stops to win back "lesser evil" sympathizers on the internet. We would like to know of other fronts you may have encountered. You can post your authenticated evidence in the Comments below. If accepted, we will append to this list:
Here're are two just today from people who should know better:
- Dick Morris Reports(UTube) . Sure, anyone can be anti-Ron Paul, but why be untruthful, plugging a CFR-connected alternative?
- Super PAC American Crossroads The Leadership staff, all GOP crooners.(taxpayer subsidized) .Super PAC American Crossroads Becoming Key to Romney Campaign
- Conservative Majority Fund - mantra of any Republican in the White House will do
This is
the thirteenth story in an exclusive series about the funding behind
politically active tax-exempt organizations that don't disclose their
donors. You can read the other stories in the series here.
As
of today, spending reported to the Federal Election Commission by
groups that aren't required to disclose the sources of their funding has
nearly tripled over where it stood at the same point in the 2010
election cycle, according to research by the Center for Responsive
Politics.
By Aug. 6, 2010, groups registered as social welfare organizations, or 501(c)(4)s, as well as super PACs funded entirely by them, had reported spending $8.5 million. That figure has soared to $24.9 million in this cycle.
In 2008, nondisclosing groups reported spending $8.3 million at this point in the campaign season.
In addition, the numbers show a clear break from those of previous cycles in that
That trend is due in part to a U.S. District Court decision March 30 in the case Van Hollen v. FEC,
which requires tax-exempt organizations making electioneering
communications to disclose "each donor who donated an amount aggregating
$1,000 or more to the person making the disbursement." After the
decision, some big spenders like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
which had previously produced only issue ads, changed tack and began
running ads that explicitly advocate for or against candidates. As a
result, the group can continue to avoid disclosing its donors.
In
fact, no group has reported making a single electioneering
communication since the beginning of April, just after the court
decision.
Any group claiming 501(c)(4) status under the Internal Revenue Code is supposed to spend less than half its budget on political activity, such as independent expenditures. However, as OpenSecrets Blog has described, some groups spend much of their money on issue ads, and also fund other tax-exempt groups with similar political philosophies that in turn spend their money on advertising...Read more from OpenSecrets>> Spending Reported by Nondisclosing Groups Well Ahead of 2010 - OpenSecrets Blog
