This article in The Campaign Legal Center is by Georgia Lyon:
Trevor Potter, president of Campaign Legal Center (CLC), first appeared on the “Colbert Report” to educate the public about political action committees (PAC) on March 30, 2011. The interview highlighted how easy it is for candidates and super PACs to illegally coordinate campaign spending.
A decade later, not much has changed. Across the political spectrum, campaigns and super PACs are still going unpunished when they deliberately work together to spend money on behalf of their preferred candidate. This is due in large part to dysfunction at our nation’s only federal elections watchdog agency, the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
To reduce political corruption, we need a stronger FEC to enforce campaign finance laws and hold political candidates and their donors accountable.
Here’s a link the full article.
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