May 2012
27 posts
Return to Sender
In which the Republican Party of Florida assures the FEC that, unlike in the past, it will now send checks to vendors at the correct addresses:
Attempts to locate the correct mailing address and responsible person
to handle deposit of these checks has occurred and the Committee
expects all checks to subsequently be deposited by the vendors to
whom the checks are written.
Great PAC Names, Volume I
There are awards for so many trivial things, why not for political action committee names? It must be done.
For excellence in leadership PAC names, ChutzPAC, the committee of Representative Howard L. Berman, Democrat of California.
The Unapologetic Robo Call
Usually automated campaign telephone calls - known as “robo-calls” - are as popular as any other form of telemarketing, so you often see them described in filings as “voter contact” or “telephone calls” or something other slightly less, well, robotic. A quick search of 3.4 million campaign expenditures since 2009 found less than 1,000 expenditures labeled as...
Regulate This
Complying with Federal Election Commission regulations can make some committees cranky, but rare is the one that threatens legal action if the FEC doesn’t acknowledge that its non-filing is, in fact, a proper filing. Let me introduce you to the American Promise PAC’s “April Quarterly report” (emphasis mine):
April Quarterly Report-
No Contributions
No Expenditures
...
