Political Action Committee Fundraising Scam

[lpetrich]

How conservative operatives steered millions in PAC donations to themselves - POLITICO - "The Conservative Majority Fund has raised nearly $10 million since mid-2012, but has made just $48,400 in political contributions."

After recruiting thousands of donors for the American Conservative Union — the powerful organization behind the annual CPAC conference — a Republican political operative pushed the same contributors to give millions to a PAC that promised to go after then-President Barack Obama, but then steered much of their donations to himself and his partners.

Some charities spend a lot on administrative expenses, and some are outright scams, and this also seems to be true of political action committees.

... Public records indicate its main beneficiaries are the operative Kelley Rogers, who has a history of disputes over allegedly unethical fundraising, and one of the largest conservative fundraising companies, InfoCision Management Corp., which charged millions of dollars in fundraising fees.

Leaked e-mails and documents describe how this PAC works, like making red-meat appeals to increase donations, appeals like questioning BO's US citizenship.

On the day after Obama won reelection, the PAC changed its call scripts, telling donors that Obama’s “immediate plans are to pardon the terrorists at Guantanamo, give full amnesty to illegal aliens and give the United Nations the authority to tax Americans,” according to a fundraising script in the emails. There is no evidence that any of those plans were under consideration by the Obama administration. Donors were told that the PAC had hired a team of investigators and lawyers to press for impeachment. There is no evidence in FEC records that it ever did.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

This is so nice. Millions wasted instead of being used to elect far right candidates to office. This puts a big smile on my face.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

This is so nice. Millions wasted instead of being used to elect far right candidates to office. This puts a big smile on my face.

Ya, the fact that they’re stealing money seems to be a case of the lesser of the two evils here.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Fundraising very often is a scam. Most fundraising goes to fundraising and supporting the organization that did it rather than whatever the stated purpose is.

 

[fast]

Noncriminally committing noncrimes pays bills, but criminally committing noncrimes pays them all with money left over, so crime pays (and often pays well). We are taught that crime does not pay, and as far as criminally committing crimes goes, that is true, but that does not necessarily apply to crimes committed noncriminally. Now, it may very well be criminal to commit certain noncrimes, but so long as the crimes are noncriminal, I wouldn’t worry very much about it.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

The funny thing about PACs is that anyone can do them. The reason the Republicans use them more (and therefore that means PACs are bad) is that the Democratic Party likes to have more of the campaign process under its direct control. I could create a PAC dedicated to helping elect Democrats, and do so with complete integrity and actually do what I say I'm doing, and still incur the wrath of the Democratic Party because my PAC isn't controlled by the Democratic Party.

So PACs are bad because the Democratic Party doesn't allow Democrats to use them.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

This is so nice. Millions wasted instead of being used to elect far right candidates to office. This puts a big smile on my face.

Hopefully they blew it all on hookers and blow.