MUR #5396

RESPONDENTS: Bauer for President 2000, Inc.; America Direct; Campaign For Working Families; Cannon, Francis P.; Moore Response Marketing Services; Myers, Amy R.; RST Marketing Services; The Lukens Cook Company, Inc.

COMPLAINANT: Audit Division

SUBJECT: Contributions-Excessive; Contributions-Corporations

DISPOSITION: The Commission decided by a vote of 5-0 to: to take the following actions in MUR 5396: 1. Accept the conciliation agreement with Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, as recommended in the General Counsel?s Report #2, dated October 20, 2004.Accept the conciliation agreement with Campaign for Working Families PAC and Amy R. Myers, as treasurer, as recommended in the General Counsel?s Report #2, dated October 20, 2004.3. Take no further action with respect to America Direct, Inc.4. Take no further action with respect to Moore Response Marketing Services. Take no further action with respect to RST Marketing Associates, Inc.Close the file with respect to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer; Campaign for Working Families PAC and Amy R. Myers, as treasurer; Lukens Cook Company; America Direct, Inc.; Moore Response Marketing Services; RST Marketing Associates, Inc.7. Approve the appropriate letters.
Decided by vote 6-0 to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to: 1. Take no further action with respect to the following recommendations and dismiss this portion of the matter: a) Find RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, received an excessive contribution from Campaign for Working Families PAC in the form of an extension of credit in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441a(f), but take no further action; and b) Find RTB that the Campaign for Working Families PAC and Amy R. Myers, as treasurer, made an excessive contribution to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in the form of an extension of credit in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(2)(A), but take no further action. 2. Send the appropriate letters.
Decided by vote 5-1 to: 1. Open a MUR. 2. Find RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, accepted excessive in-kind contributions from the Campaign for Working Families PAC in the form of the exchange of mailing lists or portions of mailing lists of unequal value in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441a(f). 3. Find RTB that the Campaign for Working Families PAC and Amy R. Myers, as treasurer, made excessive in-kind contributions to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in the form of the exchange of mailing lists or portions of mailing lists of unequal value in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(2)(A). 4. Find no RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, received a prohibited contribution from the Lukens Cook Company in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 5. Find no RTB that the Lukens Cook Company made a prohibited contribution to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 6. Find RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, accepted prohibited contributions from America Direct, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 7. Find RTB that America Direct, Inc., made prohibited contributions to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 8. Find RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, accepted prohibited contributions from RST Marketing Associates, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 9. Find RTB that RST Marketing Associates, Inc. made prohibited contributions to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 10. Find RTB that Bauer for President 2000, Inc. and Francis P. Cannon, as treasurer, accepted prohibited contributions from Moore Response Marketing Services in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 11. Find RTB that Moore Response Marketing Services made prohibited contributions to Bauer for President 2000, Inc. in violation of 2 U.S.C. 441b(a). 12. .................... REDACTED ....................