These scenarios emerge from the Court's notorious Citizens United decision, in 2010, which led to the removal of limits on independent expenditures in support of candidates, and from more recent cases interpreting that decision, such as McCutcheon v. F.E.C.
"A candidate may use personal funds to make large independent expenditures in support of or opposition to other candidates and not be subject to disclosure under the charter definition".
His solution is to create an alternative campaign-finance system; alternative because Supreme Court rulings, most especially the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, make it difficult to regulate the current system, which permits unlimited corporate and independent expenditures in support of candidates for federal office.
They limited debt servicing while ramping up government capital expenditures in support of growth.
The Federal Election Commission has recorded about $16,000 in outside expenditures in support of Van Haaften's opponent, Larry Bucshon, and no expenditures against him.
But Speechnow accepted the fiction that unlimited expenditures in support of a candidate are independent of the officer-seekers' campaign.
The Cardon campaign has also implied in public statements that a company like APS or a political operative like Noble or Adams could make outside expenditures in support of Pierce's campaign.
The committees have traditionally been used to provide a vehicle for a group of people -- employees of a corporation, members of a union, supporters of a political figure -- to pool their money for campaign contributions or independent expenditures in support of the election of candidates.
A letter advertising the launch stated that it "is designed to give national and state Republican political party committees and local, state and federal Republican candidates the ability to raise unlimited individual and corporate contributions for independent expenditures in support of federal and state candidates".
We review actual donor government expenditures in support of HIV prevention for two groups of primary donors, i.e. European governments including the European Commission, and the USA.
But Mr. Lee won support from the tech industry, including Mr. Conway, who raised $600,000 for a high-profile independent expenditure campaign in support of Mr. Lee's candidacy.
