[EL] a query

[Scarberry, Mark]

Craig,

Is it your position that my donation of $200 to a 527 would allow me to have a corrupting influence on public officials? Why set the amount so low?

Mark

Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law


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On Sep 18, 2014, at 6:48 AM, "Craig Holman" <holman at aol.com<mailto:holman at aol.com>> wrote:

Good Morning, Frank:

If I understand your question correctly, you're asking about section 527 political organizations. Following the 2000 section 527 disclosure law, which was vastly enhanced in 2002 by the Brady-Lieberman 527 disclosure law (which requires electronic filing of 527 groups that raise or spend more than $50,000, in a "searchable, sortable and downloadable" format -- a phrase I inserted in the bill), all section 527 groups must disclose donors of $200 or more and expenditures of $500 or more -- including those involved in state and local elections. These groups must register with the IRS, and their contributions and expenditures are disclosed on the IRS web page, unless the political organizations are already subject to comparable disclosures to a state disclosure agency or the FEC.

So there is a huge difference between 501(c)s and Section 527s, even Section 527s that are primarily involved in state elections.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Askin <faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu<mailto:faskin at kinoy.rutgers.edu>>
To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu<mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
Cc: law-election <law-election at UCI.edu<mailto:law-election at UCI.edu>>
Sent: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:26 am
Subject: [EL] a query


(s there any real difference in operations between a c(4) and a 537 whose major
purpose is NOT funding federal elections?  As I uderstand it, Neither has to
file with the FEC and both have to file with the IRS and list major donors. In
ether case are the donors publicly available? FRANK


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