I'm not real familiar with these, "PAC Organizations". But I do understand all these alleged PAC insider rules make it where candidates can't talk to them. (You know that BS in most cases).☺
Question: When a PAC organization takes $500,000 from one PAC and gives it to another candidate's PAC, is this supposed to be a double super secret information where no one, including the candidates, know about it?
Veerrry interesting.....
Well the candidates aren’t supposed to know anything about it. They’re incommunicado. That said, Carly clearly would know about it, because everywhere she goes she has her PAC. They’re at her events, organizing, doing the recruitment for volunteers. The only difference between them and Carly’s actual campaign is that they have a small sticker on their literature that says “We’re a Super PAC!”. They’re basically running her campaign.
If you’re asking “does no one know who is doing the funding?” Well, we know who is funding these PACs. They publish the names of them every so often I believe. Fiorina’s, for example, receives its largest donations from a Univision goon. That oughta tell you all you need to know about Carly.
SuperPACs are specifically forbidden from coordinating with campaigns on expenditures. To do so would be a epic -level FUBAR that only an idiot would do.
Does that mean staffers with several layers of insulation from the candidate don’t make off-hand “You know what would help us” comments over drinks? You have to be a special kind of naive to believe that doesn’t happen.
Again, though, nothing in FEC regulations prevents a SuperPAC from donating to multiple campaigns.
More info for you: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/01/31/nine-things-you-need-know-about-super-pacs/