Friend -- Did you see this email? We need as many people as
possible to sign if we want to pass Katie Porter's bill!

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Friend,

During the 2016 presidential election, voters were inundated with radio
and television ads from dozens of PACs, including the Liberty Action Group
PAC and Progressive Priorities PAC. Those two PACs in particular solicited
more than $3.5 million in donations.

But the PACs donated only $19 to political causes. The people running them
pocketed the rest.(1)

Due to the dark money and fuzzy laws surrounding PACs, the groups are ripe
for ripping people off for millions of dollars and lining the pockets of
the people who run them. That’s why it’s critical that Representative
Katie Porter’s bipartisan bill, the Stop Scam PACs Act, be passed
immediately.

[ [link removed] ]Sign our petition calling on Congress to pass the Stop Scam PACs Act!

[ [link removed] ]ADD YOUR NAME

If a person is found to be defrauding the public with a PAC, as the
founders of Liberty Action Group and Progressive Priorities were, they can
be prosecuted.(2) But by then, the money is gone.

Plus, plenty of PAC money goes for fraudulent purposes that are allowed by
law. Donald Trump’s Super PAC has been spending hundreds of thousands of
dollars on fighting his lawsuits and paying consultants instead of on a
reelection campaign.(3) And Trump’s PAC was also found to have used shady
practices to defraud donors, especially senior citizens, out of thousands
of dollars in unintended gifts.(4)

The Stop Scam PACs Act would allow the Federal Election Commission to stop
fraudsters from setting up and continuing to run political groups that
have no plan to do any campaigning or they use the money for personal
purposes. Congress needs to pass this bill before more people are
defrauded.

[ [link removed] ]We need the Stop Scam PACs Act in place before the next election cycle.
Sign the petition now!

[ [link removed] ]SUPPORT THIS CAMPAIGN

Yours in the fight for ethical elections,

Irene, along with Annie, Isidra, Lindsay, Mai, Mai, Raquel, and Scottie
(and the rest of the Courage team)

Footnotes:
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