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Conservative group seeks FEC approval to keep donors secret

May 1, 2012
Chicago Tribune

By Matea Gold

WASHINGTON — A conservative group that plans to run a barrage of television ads attacking President Obama has asked the Federal Election Commission if it can avoid disclosing its donors by not naming him explicitly in its commercials.

American Future Fund, a tax-exempt free-market advocacy group based in Iowa, wants to air a series of spots hammering Obama’s energy and healthcare policies within 30 days of upcoming primary elections and 60 days of the November election, the group’s lawyers wrote to the FEC last month.

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On The Million-Dollar Trail Of A Mystery SuperPAC Donor

April 26, 2012
NPR/Planet Money
Morning Edition

The superPACs raising money to support presidential candidates have few restrictions.

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Most independent ads for 2012 election are from groups that don’t disclose donors

April 24, 2012
Washington Post
By Dan Eggen,

Nearly all of the independent advertising aired for the 2012 general-election campaign has come from interest groups that do not disclose their donors, sugges

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Partisan Divide May Keep FEC From Heeding Judge's Order On Ad Loophole

April 2, 2012
NPR

by Peter Overby

A federal judge in a ruling late Friday told the Federal Election Commission to close a loophole that allows anonymous funding of political ads but it's not clear what the FEC will do.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the FEC ignored a provision in the McCain-Feingold law that requires advocacy groups to disclose donors of the money used for campaign-season ads.

 
The FEC interpreted that to mean that no disclosure was necessary unless the donor earmarked the money for specific ads.

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A Wyoming Millionaire Places His Faith In Santorum

March 31, 2012
NPR

by Peter Overby

Weekend Edition Saturday

After a series of primary wins, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum showed strong fundraising numbers last month.

But earlier in the contest, the loudest voice promoting the former Pennsylvania senator wasn't the candidate himself. It was Foster Friess, a multimillionaire who was the main funder of a pro-Santorum superPAC.

And when Santorum spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in early February, it was Friess who introduced him.

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