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Uncoordinated Coordination: Six Reasons Limits on Super PACs Are Barely Limits at All

November 21, 2011, 1:20PM

Stephen Colbert outside the FEC

by Marian Wang ProPublica

Ask any campaign-finance expert about super PACs and you'll likely keep hearing one word: "coordination." That's because Super PACs -- the super-powered groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money from anyone -- have just one crucial restriction on their powers: By law, they're not supposed to coordinate with candidates.

Think that sounds clear? Think again.

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Topics: Campaign Contributions, Campaign Donations, Campaign Finance, Colbert Super PAC, FEC, Federal Election Commission, Stephen Colbert

Colbert Fans Email The FEC About Karl Rove's Super PAC Request

Ryan J. Reilly | November 18, 2011, 5:35AM

Stephen Colbert's "super PAC" Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow last week asked supporters to write the Federal Election Commission in "support" of American Crossroads' request to, essentially, coordinate "non-coordinated" campaign advertisements with politicians.

Colbert was mocking a request for an advisory opinion sent to the FEC on behalf of Karl Rove's American Crossroads which stated: "While these advertisements would be fully coordinated with incumbent Members of Congress facing re-election in 2012, they would presumably not qualify as 'coordinated communications."

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Topics: American Crossroads, Colbert Super PAC, Federal Election Commission, Stephen Colbert

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Rick Perry v. 'Rick Parry': A Study in Pushing Campaign Finance Frontiers

October 10, 2011, 10:32AM

Stephen Colbert

by Marian Wang ProPublica

For months, comedian Stephen Colbert has been taking his satire to the field of campaign finance, highlighting how little-known groups can raise and spend unlimited -- and sometimes undisclosed -- funds on election ads. Since early August, Colbert has been raising money through real groups he created and producing ads to support a fake candidate, Rick Parry. (That's Parry with an "A" for America, as Colbert says.)

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Topics: Colbert Super PAC, Stephen Colbert

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Rival PAC Challenges Stephen Colbert's PAC To A Tractor Pull

David Taintor | August 15, 2011, 11:16AM

Stephen Colbert outside the FEC

In what could have been a good old-fashioned hoedown, throw down at the Ames straw poll this weekend, a rival Super PAC challenged Stephen Colbert's "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" to a tractor pull.

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Topics: Colbert Super PAC, Jobs For Iowa PAC, Stephen Colbert

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Colbert PAC Releases New 'Cornographic' Iowa Ad (VIDEO)

David Taintor | August 11, 2011, 4:43PM

Stephen Colbert's Super PAC is not impressed with big money groups "pandering" to Iowans with pro-Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) ads featuring cheap "cornography" ahead of this weekend's straw poll in Ames.

Colbert's PAC -- "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow" -- believes Iowans deserve better. And featuring a gratuitiousy buttery cob of corn, Colbert promises his PAC is "going to give it to ya."

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Topics: Colbert Super PAC, Iowa, Stephen Colbert

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Colbert PAC Debuts Iowa Straw Poll Ad: Vote For 'Rick Parry' (VIDEO)

David Taintor | August 10, 2011, 4:24PM

Stephen Colbert made good on his promise. On the Colbert Report Monday, he promised to release his first television ad on Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa, and he has done just that.

The ad -- sponsored by Colbert's Super PAC, "Americans for a Better Tomorrow,Tomorrow" -- opens with an ominous Colbert voice over, warning of a "money storm" of conservative interest groups gathering over Iowa, each of them trying to influence voters to support Rick Perry at the Iowa straw poll this weekend.

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Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Wouldn't Report Donations Until 2012

Ryan J. Reilly | July 11, 2011, 12:10PM

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert's new "Super PAC" Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow will not report donations until 2012.

The treasurer of the political action committee created by the Comedy Central host wrote a letter to the Federal Election Commission informing the agency they would be changing the filing frequency to semi-annual for 2011. That means the group wouldn't have to report who donated to the group until January 2012.