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Pro-Gingrich group moves to delay revealing donors
By Keenan Steiner Dec 22, 2011 3:46 p.m.Another leading presidential super PAC signaled Thursday that it plans to keep its donors' identities under wraps until Jan. 31, meaning voters in four crucial early contests will go to the polls without knowing who is behind two well-funded efforts to influence their decisions.
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Presidential Super PAC disclosures may leave voters in the dark
By Keenan Steiner Dec 21, 2011 11:56 a.m.When voters cast their ballots in January’s presidential nominating contests, they may not know the moneyed interests behind the attack ads run by shadowy outside groups trying to influence their votes, despite a Federal Election Commission deadline requiring many of them to disclose information next week.
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New Super PAC inspired by Stephen Colbert
By Keenan Steiner Nov 10, 2011 3:09 p.m.Comedian Stephen Colbert, who started his own ironic-sounding and controversial Super PAC earlier this year, has also inspired at least one other man to form his own Super PAC.
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Meet the first “Corporate” Super PAC
By Lindsay Young Oct 17, 2011 4:07 p.m.Today came a moment campaign finance watchers have been waiting for: the first corporate "Super PAC"--that is a PAC whose sole source of funding is corporate money--filed its paper work with the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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FEC surrenders in Hybrid Super PAC case
By Bill Allison Aug 24, 2011 12:09 p.m.The Federal Election Commission has settled a dispute with a political action committee that will allow it to both contribute to federal candidates like a traditional PAC and to take unlimited contributions from corporate, labor or individuals for use in making independent expenditures.
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Hybrid committee is both Super PAC, traditional PAC
By Aaron Bycoffe Aug 5, 2011 10:44 a.m.A new type of Super PAC has filed registration papers with the Federal Election Commission, saying it plans both to accept unlimited contributions for independent expenditures and, using a separate bank account, to take in limited donations to be used for direct contributions to candidates.
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Super PACs raise a combined $26 million in first half of year
By Aaron Bycoffe Aug 1, 2011 10:27 a.m.Six months in to the first full election cycle in which Super PACs will play a role, the groups have combined to raise more than $26 million and are entering the second half of the year with about $23 million on hand.
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Sharron Angle's campaign committee is biggest contributor to her Super PAC
By Aaron Bycoffe Jul 12, 2011 11:07 a.m.A Super PAC launched by former U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle reported nearly $13,000 in contributions for the first six months of the year, with more than half -- $7,500 -- coming from Angle's campaign committee.
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FEC allows candidates to solicit limited contributions for Super PACs
By Aaron Bycoffe Jun 30, 2011 11:26 a.m.The Federal Election Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow federal candidates and party officials to solicit limited contributions for Super PACs, groups that have changed the campaign-finance landscape in the past year by raising and spending unlimited amounts from indivuals, corporations and labor unions.
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FEC set to vote on Super PAC fundraising by candidates
By Aaron Bycoffe Jun 29, 2011 10:32 a.m.Two new draft Advisory Opinions from the FEC's legal staff leave open the possibility that the commission will allow candidates and party officers to raise money — possibly without limits — for Super PACs.
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FEC proposes rule to allow federal officeholders, candidates to appear at Super PAC fundraisers
By Bill Allison Jun 24, 2011 11:10 a.m.In response to a request by a pair of Democratic Super PACs, the Federal Election Commission has proposed a new rule that would allow members of Congress, federal candidates and national political party officials to appear and speak at fundraisers for independent expenditure-only committees, or Super PACs, but would bar them from asking corporations, labor unions or individuals for the unlimited contributions that fueled the spending of these outside groups in the 2010 election cycle.
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Democratic Super PAC raises individual, union, corporate and Super PAC contributions
By Bill Allison Jun 23, 2011 6:05 p.m.The House Majority PAC, one of the two Democratic Super PACs currently seeking permission from the Federal Election Commission to have federal candidates and party officials solicit funds for them, has disclosed its first batch of donors in the 2012 election cycle. Among the big givers are stalwart Democratic donors, including unions like the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ($200,000) and the Communications Workers of America ($50,000), individuals like Fred Eychaner ($100,000) and George Soros ($75,000), trial law firm Kazan McClain Lyons Greenwood & Harley ($10,000), tech company Integrated Archive Systems ($25,000) and America's Families First Action Fund ($50,000), which is itself a Super PAC.
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Sharron Angle launches Super PAC
By Bill Allison Jun 12, 2011 11:38 a.m.Former senatorial candidate and tea party favorite Sharron Angle, who lost her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in 2010, has launched her own independent expenditure-only committee, Our Voice PAC.
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Bauer returns to firm with Super PAC practice
By Bill Allison Jun 2, 2011 2:42 p.m.Departing White House counsel Robert Bauer is returning to the election law practice he built at Perkins Coie, where his once and future colleagues have been active on behalf of a pair of Super PACs. The firm recently asked the Federal Election Commission to rule on whether politicians can raise unlimited sums from any source for "independent expenditure-only" groups.
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