July 2012
21 posts
Predicting the future in politics is tricky. But let’s give Teresa Henley, a candidate for the House from Missouri, some credit. Three years ago she knew that she would be receiving some last-minute contributions for her 2012 campaign.
Alternately, her would-be constituents may expect that their representatives should get closer than three years of the correct date when filing official...
This Campaign Thing Is So Over
James Michael Harrington, treasurer of the Rysavy for Congress committee, has had enough:
I would like to close this campaign out. The campaign
has no funds and any amount owed to the campaign
by the candidate have been forgiven.
Hooray for Paper
This much we know: Arizona Senate candidate Richard Carmona’s July Quarterly report is dated July 13, two days before the deadline. Two days to send 643 pages of paper from Arizona to Washington, D.C. - seems doable, right?
Carmona’s report arrived at the Secretary of the Senate on July 23, three days after the F.E.C. sent a letter asking where the report was.
Let’s recap:...
Look, we know that Mia Love is running for Congress from Utah. Still, is the best name for her joint fundraising committee the “Utah Love JFC”, given the whole deal with that recent TV show?
Filing is Hard
FEC requirements are hard for the Western Representation PAC to deal with:
In response to the June 18 2012 Request For Additional
Information (RFAI) with regards to the March monthly
report (02/01/2012 - 02/29/2012), The committee responds
as follows:
(1) The committee is continuing to develop a
broader and economically feasible solution to contact all past
donors who may have not provided...
Apparently the folks at Sick and Tired of Washington are too tired to fill out their reports correctly, too. The Super PAC’s April Quarterly showed no receipts and $39,848.85 in disbursements, an interesting message if one of things you’re sick and tired of is deficit spending. Today they amended that filing to say that, actually, they had received $75,000 during the first quarter,...
Prosperity for Michigan’s July Quarterly, filed on July 13, looked pretty empty - no contributions, no expenditures. Nothing to see here.
Except for, well, the $188,500 in contributions that it brought in during the second quarter. Those would be something, yes. Ten days after the first filing, Prosperity for Michigan got a little more prosperous in an amendment.
And here I was thinking...
Gremlins, Vol. I
Sometimes, things just happen when you’re preparing FEC filings. How do they happen? No one knows. They just do. Ask the Ron Paul campaign:
Amended reports were filed today for the above mentioned periods
in order to correct discrepancies created by a computer program
irregularity. During a process that was run to clean up the database,
it was determined that some donations had been...
I think you mean “Special Operations for America On the Cheap”.
FEC Filing ASCII Art
Oh, Why Not Zoid PAC?, we’ll always have time for you:
To Whom I May Concern:
I'm pretty sure that this memo will be lost among the flood
of July 15 Quarterly reports, so I'll use this as a testing ground.
I hope you (the FEC filer) and you (the FEC watchdogs)
are doing well. That's pretty much all I have to share for now.
Sincerely,
Danny Ben-David, Grand Poobah, Why Not...
All political donors should have an occupation of “Provocateur-in-Residence”.
Great PAC Names, Volume III
Make Schiff Happen.
Termination in extremis
Oh sure, it sounds great to have a Super PAC - everybody is doing it, right? But what happens when you get bored with it and it doesn’t do anything, like some exotic pet you promised Mom that you’d take care of?
I hereby present the last missive of the American Promise PAC:
I hereby request dissolution and termination in extremis
of the American Promise PAC. For the Second Quarter...
The Fur Information Council of America has a PAC called “Fur Wraps the Hill.”
That’s the whole post.
Hadn’t heard of presidential hopeful Eddy M. Hill? He has given himself the pseudonym “Edmich H” and previously lived in Hope, Ark. His new committee is the Caucasian Consciousness Movement, and while the FEC doesn’t list a political party with the acronym “CSA”, I’m guessing you might figure out what that means in this context.
The FEC recently wrote to the Andy Harris for Congress committee to note that it had failed to report some”48-Hour” contributions late in the primary season. In its response, the Harris campaign did acknowledge the mistake, but it also tried to accentuate the positive, too:
Of the 37 contributions we received during the 48-hour notice
window of $1,000 or more, we correctly reported 35...
Apparently America’s Next Generation doesn’t know how to spell the name of the current president.
But Wait, There's More!
Looking for a Fourth of July gift for that tough-to-buy-for special person? How about his or her very own Super PAC! “The Super PAC Store” is having a blowout sale on eBay of nearly a dozen fully registered Super PACs, including these gems:
Build the Keystone Pipeline
Americans for Flat and Fair Tax Equality
Stop Iran
No More Timeline Pages (for Net activists!)
China Watch
Stop...
Texas Hold-em is hard, I’m told. That’s why the Ottawa (Michigan) County Democratic Party needs to pay people to help them with their games.
Freedom and Liberty Super PAC, based in Utah, reports a single $100,000 donation during the second quarter of 2012, from Rufer J. Rufer of Woodland, Calif.
This also means something (probably that they got the first name wrong).
Some expenditures last fall by Re-Elect Exon for U.S. Senate Committee caught the eye of the FEC, which asked whether the transactions in question represented personal expenditures. That would have been tough, mainly because former Nebraska Senator Jim Exon is, well, dead. Turns out that his campaign committee is still alive and paid two former associates of Exon nearly $3,000 to edit his official...
