Sentence examples for pacs from inspiring English sources
When it's a Super Pac The dodging of an official White House bid also allows candidates to dispatch would-be campaign staff to run Super Pacs.
It is not unusual for Democrats to call for reforming the system of campaign finance rules, particularly since the 2010 US supreme court decision that unleashed unlimited corporate donations to political Super Pacs.
As long as they are independent of all parties and candidates, super PACs can raise unlimited sums and spend them urging the election or rejection of particular candidates.Moreover, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has defined independence so narrowly that it is almost meaningless.
By the same token, Mr Friess's largesse is widely seen as having salvaged the campaign of Mr Santorum, the current front-runner, during a fallow period.In theory, super PACs must reveal who their donors are.
Far from usurping the democratic process and narrowing voters' options, super PACs are actually adding to them, argues Bradley Smith, another former FEC commissioner.But the current muddle also endures because there is little agreement about what should replace it.
As for the FEC, it is too stuck in partisan gridlock to tighten its own rules.Many Republicans resist reform in part because they see super PACs as a possible counterweight to Mr Obama's overwhelming fund-raising advantage in 2008.
And he may be a bit rickety on campaign finance law: he told a Bloomberg News reporter, "I'm just figuring out all the legalities and how to set up a super-PAC, and then I'm going," apparently forgetting that super-PACs cannot directly coordinate with and certainly cannot be created by candidates.But pollsters are already in the field trying to gauge his appeal.
Although most of that came from super-PACs, which must disclose both their donors and spending to the FEC, much of it also came from politically active non-profits, which need disclose nothing at all.
Too often, super-PACs are staffed by close associates of the candidate to whom they are linked, feature him as their "guest speaker" and target their money exactly where he wants.
Although most of that came from super-PACs, which must disclose both their donors and spending to the FEC, much of it also came from politically active non-profit organisations, which need disclose nothing at all.
Much of it came from "super-PACs"—political action committees that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, provided they disclose their donors and catchily named "501(c)(4 s", non-profit groups that can spend slightly less freely than super-PACs but do not have to disclose their donors.
