In Virginia Governor’s Race, Super PAC-Candidate Coordination Can Occur Legally
Posted in: Today's ChiliWASHINGTON — The general understanding of super PACs and other outside groups with political goals is that they must operate independently of candidates and that they are legally barred from most coordination with candidates or political parties.
As Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney famously put it in declining to discourage a pro-Romney group’s ads, “Super PACs have to be entirely separate from a campaign and a candidate. I’m not allowed to communicate with a super PAC in any way, shape or form. If we coordinate in any way whatsoever, we go to the big house.”
Beware, Virginia. While federal limits restrict these groups in federal elections, they don’t apply to the state’s marquee gubernatorial contest this year.
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