Mary Jacoby reports on campaign finance issues. Complaints to the Federal Election Commission about presidential campaign-related spending are piling up. Today, the campaign finance reform group Democracy 21 added to the stack, alleging that two groups should be treated as “political committees,” subjecting them to more disclosure and limits on their donors. Part of the complaint focuses on the American Issues Project, a 501 (c) 4 tax exempt organization that ran ads in the battle ground states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia linking Democratic nominee Barack Obama to Bill Ayers, a founder of the 1960s violent protest group, the Weather Underground. The AIP spent $2.8 million on those ads, the complaint says. It is funded by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, a major backer of the 2004 Swift Boat campaign against...
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