Showing posts with label GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates Use PACs To Skirt Federal Campaign Fundraising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates Use PACs To Skirt Federal Campaign Fundraising. Show all posts

Friday, December 31, 2010

Potential GOP 2012 Presidential Candidates Use PACs To Skirt Federal Campaign Fundraising Laws

USA Today reported yesterday that 6 Republicans considering a run for president in 2012 — Gov. Haley Barbour (MS), Newt Gingrich, former Arkansas governor MIke Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Gov. Tim Pawlenty (MN) — have raised millions of dollars in political action committee accounts “that allow them to get around federal campaign laws that limit presidential fundraising”: