[EL] Single donor super-PACs and helicopter parents

[Scarberry, Mark]

Please ignore the fragment at the end of my message. (I actually do have an appointment set up to have my eyes examined!)

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Scarberry, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:18 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] Single donor super-PACs and helicopter parents

Aren't single donor super-PACs essentially just vehicles for the unlimited individual expenditures that Buckley said could not be prohibited? Wouldn't it be inconsistent with Buckley to probity relatives from spending money, regardless of the risk of coordination? rights to spend money?

Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law



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USA Today on Single-Donor Super PACS in House Races<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37475>
Posted on July 25, 2012 9:03 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37475> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Investor funds drive against Tennessee Republican<http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-24/super-pacs-tennessee/56465966/1#.UA_8petZ8VY>: "Nearly three dozen super PACs that have raised at least $100,000 in the 2012 election have five or fewer donors, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Nearly a third of all contributions to the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future - the super PAC that has raised the most money - have come in chunks of least $1 million each. Campaign-finance experts say super PACs' greatest influence may be felt in House contests. In 2010, the average winner of a House race spent $1.4 million - a tiny fraction of the $730 million President Obama<http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Politicians,+Government+Officials,+Strategists/Executive/Barack+Obama> spent to win the White House two years earlier, according to data compiled by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. 'In a congressional race, if someone comes in with $100,000 or $200,000 in well-placed television ads, they can have a real impact,' said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit group tracking outside political spending. 'One or two people can really sink a campaign.'"

Indeed, I've been saying for a while that the impact of federal Super PACs, both electorally and legislatively, will be much more on House and Senate races than on the presidency.
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"Helicopter parents flood super PACs"<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37459>
Posted on July 25, 2012 8:52 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=37459> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Vogel<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78931.html> for Politico: "Talk about helicopter parents: Candidates' rich mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters increasingly are pouring cash into super PACs that support their loved ones' campaigns - a phenomenon that critics say tests the bounds of both contribution limits and rules barring <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55911.html> coordination<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55911.html> between candidates and super PACs. But those who've taken advantage of the super PAC family plan say it's better to get cash from mommy and daddy than from Big Oil or organized labor, with some suggesting it's simply a natural extension of self-funded campaigns."
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