[EL] campaign finance question

[Richard Winger]

How do campaign finance laws (whether state or federal) deal with this scenario:  a wealthy individual approaches a non-candidate for public elected office, and says, "I think you would be a great state representative (or whatever) and I am going to give you a gift of $50,000 right now and I want you to use that money to run a campaign for state representative."  At that point, the intent of the gift-giver is to make a campaign contribution, but there is no public knowledge that the potential candidate has even thought about running, nor has the potential candidate filled out any declaration of candidacy or publicized the idea that he or she might run.

 
Richard Winger
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