AO 2017-10 Citizens Against Plutocracy
Independent expenditure-only political committee communications with candidates.
Advisory opinions
Advisory opinions are official Commission responses to questions about how federal campaign finance law applies to specific, factual situations.
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Once the Office of the General Counsel has determined that an advisory opinion request meets all of the requirements to move forward for consideration by the Commission, the request is made public and is available for public comment for ten days.
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Status as state committee of national party
AO 2017-08 Point Bridge Capital
Index and ETF of publicly traded securities based on contributions of companies' SSFs and employees.
AO 2017-06 Stein and Gottlieb
Vendor collecting and forwarding contributions to political committees.
AO 2017-05 Great America PAC and Committee to Defend the President
Application of disclaimer requirements to communications by non-connected political committees that maintain accounts on Twitter.
Recent advisory opinions issued
The Commission issues an advisory opinion when four or more Commissioners vote to approve it. These votes almost always occur during an open meeting.
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Use of campaign funds for residential security upgrades.
AO 2017-03 American Association of Clinical Urologists and UROPAC
Affiliation status of two membership organizations.
AO 2017-02 War Chest, LLC
Campaign funds maintained in bank deposit program.
AO 2017-01 American Urological Association
Affiliation status of two membership organizations.
AO 2016-23 Socialist Workers Party
Commission did not reach an agreement, so no AO was issued.