Jeb gonna try a new fund raising strategy that will allow unlimited funds

[Blake]

" DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The traditional presidential campaign may be getting a dramatic makeover in Jeb Bush's bid for the White House as he prepares to turn some of a campaign's central functions over to a separate political organization that can raise unlimited amounts of money.

The concept, in development for months as the former Florida governor has raised tens of millions of dollars for his Right to Rise super PAC, would endow that organization not just with advertising on Bush's behalf, but with many of the duties typically conducted by a campaign.

Should Bush move ahead as his team intends, it is possible that for the first time a super PAC created to support a single candidate would spend more than the candidate's campaign itself — at least through the primaries. Some of Bush's donors believe that to be more than likely.

The architects of the plan believe the super PAC's ability to raise unlimited amounts of money legally outweighs its primary disadvantage, that it cannot legally coordinate its actions with Bush or his would-be campaign staff .......

http://news.yahoo.com/bush-preparing-delegate-many-campaign-tasks-super-pac-072235011--election.html

[Blake]

There's no way he won't somehow contact this super Pac through 3rd 4th 5th or 6th party contacts, imo

Genius move, imo

[boutons_deux]

yep, candidates' right hand men are "quitting" the campaign to run super PACs.

Thanks, Repugs, for completing the total corruption of American politics.

[Blake]

yep, candidates' right hand men are "quitting" the campaign to run super PACs.
.

Yeah that's the thing. if the right hand man that know Jeb better than Jeb runs the Super PAC, then you got your loophole.

[Winehole23]

PAC megaspending in the primaries, uncoordinated with the campaigns? that's one way to bypass the radical message of unruly primary voters.

you go to the megadonors before the primary even starts and let them control the messaging.

[Winehole23]

because, face it: at this electoral level super PACS own the messaging.

[boutons_deux]

the only primaries that count are when the Billionaires hold meetings where the candidates crawl in, offering their naked asses, to grovel for $$$. Human-Americans are totally disenfranchised.

Thanks, Repugs (for putting your political tools on SCOTUS)

[Winehole23]

Super PACs are supposedly independent of the candidate’s campaign, but that distinction has just about vanished. In fact, strategists for the campaign of Jeb Bush (http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/04/22/why-jeb-bushs-super-pac-plan-is-potentially-illegal/) are reportedly considering (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/04/22/jeb_bush_prepares_to_give_traditional_campaign_a_m akeover_126351.html) turning over some of the campaign’s central functions to their “independent” Right to Rise super PAC, making it the super-lucrative tail that wags the dog.


The difference in fund-raising power between the two political entities runs into hundreds of millions of dollars. The Bush campaign’s potential move could mean having the super PAC take over not just television advertising and direct mail, but a host of other campaign duties, according to The Associated Press (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/409837aa09ee405493ad64a94b8c2c3d/bush-preparing-delegate-many-campaign-tasks-super-pac). This would essentially amount to making the super PAC the true campaign center, without money limits that would apply to traditional campaigns.


Federal law prohibits coordination between the candidates’ organizations and the super PACs. That ban is fast becoming a fiction, with federal election regulators uninterested and unable to enforce the law. The result is that some of the candidates’ closest political advisers and managers are now going off to take charge of super PACs, where they manage the unlimited money pouring in for their candidates.

For example, Mike Murphy, Mr. Bush’s longtime political adviser, is reportedly expected to manage the Bush super PAC. Experienced operatives could skirt the non-coordination rule and do what a candidate needs without explicitly working with the campaign organization. Other super PACs likewise have already installed campaign loyalists at their helms while proclaiming non-coordination.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/opinion/how-super-pacs-can-run-campaigns.html?ref=opinion&_r=0

[Winehole23]

side-effect: big money could mean another drawn out primary that turns off centrists


Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has raised tens of millions of dollars for his allied super PAC, collecting a historic amount, he told donors (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/26/jeb-bush-tells-his-donors-theyve-helped-make-history/) Sunday night. But that hasn’t been enough to stop his rivals from amassing their own stockpiles. A super PAC supporting Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida secured about $20 million in commitments in less than two weeks, according to people familiar with the totals. An independent operation backing Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas says it pulled in $31 million in a single week (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/groups-backing-ted-cruz-raise-31-million-in-a-single-week/2015/04/08/36defc18-de0c-11e4-a1b8-2ed88bc190d2_story.html). A new super PAC allied with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is close to matching that, fundraisers say.


Never have so many candidates entered a White House contest boosted by such huge sums. The financial arms race could fuel a protracted primary season similar to the one in 2012 — exactly what party leaders were hoping to avoid.


“There could be as many as a dozen candidates that have a threshold amount of money in their campaigns and super PACs to compete vigorously in the early states,” said Phil Cox, a Republican strategist who runs America Leads, a super PAC supporting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie that has the backing of at least two billionaires.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-the-2016-gop-race-may-be-more-like-2012-than-the-party-hoped/2015/04/26/fff662c8-e9f9-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html