the part that pisses me off the most about this is, a lot of the funding is coming from outside the US.
Like. It should be an act of treason to accept political campaign funding from foreign sources. (and large domestic donors should be forced to disclose financials so the public can ultimately see where the money came from.).
You see, that’s the fun thing about a Political Action Committee.
They are not directly working with the candidate, they are wholly independent. Meaning the candidate is not taking any money, regardless of the source.
And since companies are people, and money is speech, the PAC can get money from where they please, and do with it what they want.
They only need to make sure no evidence of direct cooperation between the PAC and the candidate can be found.
Although direct cooperation is not really needed, running ads for a candidate and trashing the other can be done perfectly fine completely independent. Plus it gives a candidate deniability.
Honestly, they should treat them as campaign donations. Like if I donate pins or something, that’s a donation… they’re donating goods. And that should expose their financials.
the part that pisses me off the most about this is, a lot of the funding is coming from outside the US.
Like. It should be an act of treason to accept political campaign funding from foreign sources. (and large domestic donors should be forced to disclose financials so the public can ultimately see where the money came from.).
You see, that’s the fun thing about a Political Action Committee.
They are not directly working with the candidate, they are wholly independent. Meaning the candidate is not taking any money, regardless of the source.
And since companies are people, and money is speech, the PAC can get money from where they please, and do with it what they want.
They only need to make sure no evidence of direct cooperation between the PAC and the candidate can be found.
Although direct cooperation is not really needed, running ads for a candidate and trashing the other can be done perfectly fine completely independent. Plus it gives a candidate deniability.
Honestly, they should treat them as campaign donations. Like if I donate pins or something, that’s a donation… they’re donating goods. And that should expose their financials.
I know. It’ll never happen. But still.