STF na Mídia - MyClipp

LAGGING BEHIND REPUBLICANS
Many Democrats staunchly opposed the controversial
2010 Supreme Court decision that paved the way for
Super PACs by removing limits on how much
corporations, unions and other outside groups could
spend on helping politicians.
Many Democrats' disdain for the court ruling ­- along
with their dismay at the barrage of PAC­-funded attack
ads that fed into the bitter campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination ­- put Democrats behind
fundraising for PACs.
Leaders of Democratic PACs say many potential
donors have not yet realized the urgency being felt by
groups that support Democratic candidates.
That complacency has also haunted another major
Democratic PAC ­- Priorities USA Action, which backs
President Barack Obama ­- as Obama himself did not
support Super PACs until February.
Priorities had $2.8 million in the bank at the end of
February, according to its latest filing. The group is due
to report its March numbers on April 20.
Priorities shares a fund with Majority PAC and House
Majority PAC, called Unity 2012, giving donors a single
place to send checks. At the end of March, this
month­-old PAC had just one donation, $100,000 from
Reuters General/ ­- Article, Sáb, 14 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
Florida­-based law firm Morgan & Morgan, which was
split between Priorities and Majority PAC.
REPUBLICANS STEP UP
The Republican National Committee, another engine
of Republican Party fundraising for congressional
races, on Friday marked its best fundraising month of
the campaign season.
The committee, which has been digging itself out of a
multimillion­-dollar debt, said it raised $13.7 million in
March, with debts declining by $1 million from
February to $9.9 million at the end of last month.
The committee started fundraising jointly this month
with Mitt Romney, the party's likely presidential
nominee. It had $32.7 million in cash on hand at the
end of March.
Its counterpart across the party line, the Democratic
National Committee, received $7.1 million in
contributions in February, with $21.2 million left in cash
on hand at the end of that month. The DNC had $5.8
million in debt.
The RNC and the DNC are also due to file their official
March fundraising reports with the FEC on April 20.
(Editing by David Lindsey, Peter Cooney and Eric
Beech)
72