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Friday, September 08, 2017

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/mtgdoc_17-30-a.pdf

Here's what I was looking for. Great America PAC AO is about disclaimers.

I'll go back now, read it, then edit this post.
ADVISORY OPINION 2017-05 2 3 Dan Backer, Esq. DRAFT A
Great America PAC and 11 The Committee to Defend the President

"various types of communications that are within the scope of the disclaimer requirements under 3 the Act and Commission regulations, including “public communications” within the meaning of 4 11 C.F.R. § 100.26 (for example, certain broadcast, cable, newspaper, magazine, and mass 5 mailings), emails of substantially similar content distributed to more than 500 recipients, and 6 their respective publicly accessible websites. AOR002-003. 7 Twitter is free to use and “allows users to disseminate, receive, and read online messages 8 called ‘tweets,’ which may include text, hypertext links, audio, and video components.”....

disclaimer requirements of 11 C.F.R. § 110.11,

As discussed in the answer to Question 1 above, where the Act and Commission 11 regulations require communications to “clearly state the full name” of a political committee, 11 12 C.F.R. § 110.11(b)(3); see 52 U.S.C. § 30120(a)(3), that name “must be presented in a clear and 13 conspicuous manner, to give the reader, observer, or listener adequate notice of the identity of 14 the person or political committee that paid for the communication,” 11 C.F.R. § 110.11(c)(1).

For example, it would be sufficient for the committee to have a disclaimer stating, “Paid 4 for by The Committee to Defend the President, @Defend_Trump, 5 committeetodefendthepresident.com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s 6 committee.” See id. at 9 (approving disclaimer including different name of fundraising project 7 because disclaimer contained language that communication “paid for by” political committee). 8 Thus, the Committee to Defend the President may use its full name and Twitter handle in 9 disclaimers because it is clear who is paying for the communication.

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OK, to me this is huuuuuge.
It's the deep state telling trump he can't campaign the way he wants.
The courts have already said this is protected speech under the First Amendment.

Currently, the fec is down to about 4 members. Trump could pack the FEC with his own supporters, asking those who terms are finished to move along. Or he could go to court. Or he could ask the justice department to see what all goes on at the FEC.







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