MUR #4131

Advertising/Solicitation

• Advocating election or defeat (of a candidate)

• By corporation/labor union

• Media

  • broadcasting

  • radio

Allocation

• Of expenditures among candidates/campaigns

Connected Organization

Contributions

• Acceptance

  • of prohibited contribution

• Expenditures, when not independent, considered contribution

• In-Kind

  • anything of value

  • when not an independent expenditure

• Limitations

  • on contributions by multicandidate committees

• Prohibited contributions

  • by corporations, labor organizations and national banks

Cooperation, Consultation, Contact

Corporations/Labor Unions/Banks

• Communication by

• Contributions and expenditures by

  • definition at 2 U.S.C. &441b(a)

  • exemptions

  • limitations for affiliated separate segregated fund

Definitions

• Anything of value

• Connected organization

• Independent expenditure

• Member

enforcement

• Dismissal

• no further action

• Enforcement/statement of reasons

Expenditures

• By corporation/labor organization/national bank

• Exempted expenditures

  • corporation/labor organization activities

• Prohibited expenditures

Express Advocacy

Independent Expenditures

Membership Organizations /Cooperatives /Corporations Without Capital Stock

• Contribution/expenditure limits

• Establishment of PAC/separate segregated fund

Reports/Reporting

• Contributions

  • 48 hour report violation

  • in-kind

• Independent expenditures

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