Tea Party Group Loses Appeal on Corporate PAC Limits

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

By Andrew Zajac Aug 5, 2014 10:17 AM ET

A U.S. appeals court left in place limits on corporate political action committees, including who can give and how much, handing a defeat to a Tea Party-linked group seeking to loosen controls on political spending.

The decision, affirming a January 2013 lower-court ruling, is a rare win for advocates of fundraising restrictions after a series of court decisions that expanded corporations’ ability to wield financial influence in elections.

In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington turned aside a challenge by Stop This Insanity Inc., an Arizona-based not-for-profit organization created to advance the values of the Tea Party movement. The group sought to allow corporate PACs to accept funds from the general public and to eliminate a $5,000-a-person annual limit on contributions earmarked for independent support or opposition to candidates.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-05/tea-party-group-loses-appeal-on-corporate-pac-limits.html

[winstars]

1. Stop This Insanity Ahh, nice name. So, up is down, white is black and insane people are normal. WTF?

[underpants]

3. Maybe they are big fans of Susan Powter

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Powter

[underpants]

2. Grassroots huh?

[starroute]

4. Another one of Dan Backer's scams -- I'm not surprised

Backer is a sleazy lawyer who's behind any number of Tea Party groups. He brought the McCutcheon case that did away with aggregate limits on individual donations. Before that, he brought a case that led to the creation of so-called hybrid PACs. (See his own website at http://www.dbcapitalstrategies.com/bios)

He's also at the center of the phony IRS scandal and is involved with the voter suppression group True The Vote. But mostly he just seems out to enrich himself by ripping off Tea Partiers with groups that spend most of their funds on him and his cronies and almost nothing on actual Tea Party candidates.

This guy is bad news all around, and it baffles me that hardly anyone seems to have noticed.

[Fred Sanders]

5. It is very expensive to take legal proceedings all the way to a federal appeals court judgment, the

fascists with funding are launching attacks at all branches and all levels of government of and for the people.

The media is the most expensive to fund, most liable to failure.

[Dustlawyer]

6. Until Americans wake up and decide to pressure (revolt) government, media, and courts

to do away with campaign contributions altogether, all 3 branches of government and the media will still answer to Big Business and Big Donors instead of the people. That is the root of almost all of the problems complained about here on DU. There seems to be little interest in attacking this problem at the moment, instead we choose to fight the symptoms, poor public education, attacks on the safety net programs, lack of reasonable gun control, fossil fuel issues, environment....

We cannot "Win" on these issues against all of the monied interest and their bought and paid for politicians and their media!