[Lnc-business] What is joint fundraising, as the FEC defines it?

[Scott L.]

This is way above my pay grade.


However, as I suspected, we have to be very careful to make sure we do this
legally, if we choose to do this:

 

 

     http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/300.31

 

 

partial quotation:

 

 " (e) No Levin funds from a national party committee or a Federal candidate
or officeholder. A State, district, or local committee of a political party
disbursing Levin funds pursuant to 11 CFR 300.32
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/300.32>  must not accept or use for
such purposes any donations or other funds that are solicited, received,
directed, transferred, or spent by or in the name of any of the following
persons: 

 

 

(1) A national committee of a political party (including a national
congressional campaign committee of a political party), any officer or agent
acting on behalf of such a national party committee, or any entity that is
directly or indirectly established, financed, maintained, or controlled by
such a national party committee. Notwithstanding 11 CFR 102.17
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/102.17> , a State, district, or
local committee of a political party must not raise Levin funds by means of
joint fundraising with a national committee of a political party, any
officer or agent acting on behalf of such a national party committee, or any
entity that is directly or indirectly established, financed, maintained, or
controlled by such a national party committee. Nothing in this section shall
be construed to prohibit a State, district, or local committee of a
political party from jointly raising, under 11 CFR 102.17
<http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/102.17> , Federal funds not to be
used for Federal election activity with a national committee of a political
party, or its agent, or any entity directly or indirectly established,
financed, maintained, or controlled by such a national party committee."

 

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

 

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Scott L.
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 2:44 PM
To: lnc-business at lp.org
Subject: [Lnc-business] What is joint fundraising, as the FEC defines it?

 

 

As you have seen, there is a demand from our affiliates for some way of
maximizing the number of people who join the LP at both the state and
national levels.

 

I assume this has been looked at before, but just in case.

 

Is this a way for us to jointly raise money with non-FEC-filing entities?

 

 

   http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/jointfundraising.shtml

 

 

 

"Joint fundraising is fundraising conducted jointly by a political committee
and one or more other political committees or unregistered organizations.
Joint fundraising rules apply to:

*	1Party committees;
*	Party organizations not registered as political committees;
*	Federal and/or nonfederal candidate committees;
*	Nonparty, unauthorized political committees (nonconnected PACs); and
*	Unregistered nonparty organizations. 11 CFR 102.17(a)(1)(i) and
(2)."

 

At some point we might want to ask this question of our FEC consultant.  Or,
we might want to ask the consultant if they can think of a way of legally
accomplishing what we are trying to do.

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

 

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