The article below looks at a
series of videos done by Stephen Colbert on his show The Colbert Report about Super PACs. The article looks at how
Colbert explains campaign finance legislation so that the general public can
understand it and the problems. Colbert is achieving this through setting up
his own PAC and documenting his journey of setting up a PAC and receiving
contributions. Colbert’s founding of a super PAC has revealed many of the
problems surrounding campaign finance, including “the influence of PACs and
unlimited-donation super PACs, secret contributions by big donors, the failure
of regulators, and the coordination between campaigns and supposedly
independent groups.” The article points out that “forming a PAC can be as easy
as filling out a form and asking for money.
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