Monday, February 27, 2012

What's An Honest SuperPAC To Do?

Would ya like to honestly know what goes on with SuperPACs and the candidate's own campaign committees? Well, yesterday there was an article in the New York Times that pointed out some of the most obvious misdeeds of these groups. Now mind you, the law states clearly that SuperPACs may not in any way coordinate any actions with the campaigns of any candidates. But there's one situation where  about six offices all at the same address where there is a campaign committee, SuperPAC and four campaign consulting firms all sharing the same facilities and are run by former campaign officers, but claim complete Independence. Now when a candidate's campaign committee pays the wife of the head of it's largest SuperPAC, $250,000 for strategy consulting and the husband is a former head of that candidate's campaign committee from a few years ago, doesn't that strike you as a bit cozy? Well if it's that obvious and if it's against the law, why doesn't somebody do something about it? Aha! I was hoping you'd ask that very question. Ya see, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is made up of three Democrats and Three Republicans. Do I need to go any further? Okay, I will. When American Crossroads SuperPAC asked the commission if they could air a certain political ad that included the candidate, the commission was deadlocked on a decision on the case and could not come to a conclusion. So American Crossroads decided to do as they pleased from then on. So do the other SuperPACs. It shows just how ineffectual the FEC really is. So you see, while there are strict laws covering what SuperPACs can and cannot do, nobody enforces the rules. Nobody seems to know or care what's legal or illegal. It's sorta like football with no rules. Somebody's gonna get hurt, but nobody seems to care. In the case of SuperPAC and campaign committee collusion, it's most likely you and I who will get hurt. You can be fairly sure the candidates don't care. You can be certain the SuperPACs don't care. And you can have even more confidence that the two parties don't care. That leaves only us to care?  Well do ya?

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