Well, I can only imagine what we will be getting in the mail from the PAC between now and Thursday, not to mention radio spots. I keep waiting for tons of ads to appear in the Herald. Newspaper and radio advertising is very expensive. Must be nice to afford to be able to hand pick your slate of candidates, and even better for the candidates who have to pay nothing for their campaigns. And if this PACs concentration is on EDUCATION---buzz word of the century--why was the mayor and commissioners brought into this PAC, and why werent all districts represented? Something is very wrong here. 12 votes are all that is needed to ram a personal agenda down the citizens of Maury Countys throats and leave us standing in the dust wondering what and how did it happen, with some of us knowing exactly how it happened. I have seen and experienced it, and you can bet the PAC knows it and its their driving force behind its concept. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a type of organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.[1][2] At the federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, according to the Federal Election Campaign Act.[3] At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the states election laws. History:In 1947, as part of the Taft–Hartley Act, the U.S. Congress prohibited labor unions or corporations from spending money to influence federal elections, and prohibited labor unions from contributing to candidate campaigns (an earlier law, the 1907 Tillman Act, had prohibited corporations from contributing to campaigns). In response to these limitations, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) created a separate political fund that it called the Political Action Committee. This was the first political action committee. In 1971, United States Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). In 1974, Amendments to FECA defined how a PAC could operate and established the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to enforce the nations campaign finance laws. The 1974 amendments also restricted the amount of money that could be given directly to a Congressional campaign, spurring a boom in the creation of PACs as campaigns shifted how they raised money.[4] FECA and subsequent FEC rules provide a range of restrictions on PACs: Individuals are limited to contributing $5,000 per year to federal PACs; Corporations and unions may not contribute directly to federal PACs, but can pay for the administrative costs of a PAC affiliated with the specific corporation or union; Corporate-affiliated PACs may only solicit contributions from executives, shareholders, and their families; Contributions from corporate or labor union treasuries are illegal, though they may sponsor a PAC and provide financial support for its administration and fundraising; Union-affiliated PACs may only solicit contributions from members; Independent PACs may solicit contributions from the general public and must pay their own costs from those funds. Federal multi-candidate PACs may contribute to candidates as follows: $5,000 to a candidate or candidate committee for each election (primary and general elections count as separate elections); $15,000 to a political party per year; and $5,000 to another PAC per year. PACs may make unlimited expenditures independently of a candidate or political party. Please Vote August 7, 2014 and please be informed about the candidates. Do you want to support a county employee as a county commissioner who can and will vote themselves a raise and push their departments agendas? Do you want tag teams on the County Commission---a husband wife team or father son team, one being a commissioner and the other a school board member, or family ties to the school system? Do you want to keep electing the same person because they are popular and have lots of name recognition? Do you want to vote against someone simply because they are not from here? Do you want to let a PAC decide for you who to vote for? These are several questions to take into consideration before you hopefully go vote on Thursday, August 7. I am extremely proud of my voting record because it shows exactly where my true alliances lie--and that is you--the citizens, the taxpayers, the voters, all my constituents regardless of political affiliation. I ask for your vote once again as County Commissioner for District 8. I have worked hard for you in serving as your County Commissioner the last four years and I want to continue to make YOU and Maury County my number one priority.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 05:22:11 +0000