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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:06 AM Feb 2016

Who's funding this pro-Ted Cruz super PAC?



Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN)A super PAC spending millions of dollars to bash Ted Cruz's Republican rivals is shielding the names of many of its top donors and strategists, accepting and directing donations through a particularly high number of hard-to-trace companies, new documents reveal.

Stand for Truth, Inc., an emerging player in the orbit of often clashing constellation of pro-Cruz super PACs, recently pledged to air more than $4 million in television ads to back Cruz in Iowa and South Carolina. Super PACs can accept unlimited contributions but are required to disclose their financial backers.

The twist here is that Stand for Truth has accepted more than $1 million in donations from corporations or limited liability companies, whose funders are difficult to uncover, meaning the original source of the campaign cash is hidden. While corporations can make donations to super PACs, an LLC allows individual donors to steer cash through easy-to-register, self-owned organizations.

"LLCs seem to be a new vehicle for laundering money into elections," said Paul Ryan, a campaign finance reformer worried about donors essentially using them as shell companies to transfer cash anonymously. "It's really hard to find out about LLCs. That's one of the reasons they've become popular."


http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/06/politics/ted-cruz-super-pac/index.html
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Who's funding this pro-Ted Cruz super PAC? (Original Post) spanone Feb 2016 OP
stand for truth quite the ironic name isn't it dembotoz Feb 2016 #1
repubs are good with fancy, ironic names for their bs spanone Feb 2016 #3
Satan. saltpoint Feb 2016 #2

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
2. Satan.
Sat Feb 6, 2016, 11:14 AM
Feb 2016

Satan isn't really behind the Cruz PAC, but I don't think that should stop us from spreading word that he is.

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