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Sarah Palin's SarahPAC Project Will Fail

By The Pullins Group LLC

Well of course it had to happen.  Sarah Palin has formed a political action committee.

Call me a pessimist, but I predict failure.  And here's why from a campaign finance perspective.

As Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is restricted from taking more than $500 in contributions from individuals and $1,000 from political action committees.  She can't accept a dime from a corporation or other business entity.

So enter her new political action committee, SarahPAC, with a post office box in Virginia and an unlisted telephone number in Washington, DC.  As a Virginia registered state political action committee she could accept donations in unlimited amounts from individuals, businesses, and even corporations.  And as a non-federal elected official she was free to set up her PAC in that manner.

But apparently, she has not.  Instead, she apparently is setting up a federal political action committee that will be restricted to accepting a maximum of $5,000 per person per year.  Why?

Virginia PACs have been used for years by both Republicans and Democrats to raise big chunks of campaign cash while "building their national profile".  Mitt Romney did it, Steve Forbes did it, and the list goes on and on.

If Sarah Palin wants to be more than a pretty face, then she needs to retain a good campaign finance lawyer to explain her options to her.  Thank you.

Scott A. Pullins, Esq.
Publisher,
The Pullins Report

Full post as published by The Pullins Report on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).