According to The Politico, the FEC has fined Americans Coming Together (ACT) $775,000 for using soft money for Democrat campaigns in violation of federal election laws.
America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.
The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.
The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.
ACT, which ceased operations in 2005, was formed in late 2003 and rapidly deployed an enormous organization to do the retail-level grunt work of politics.
Does it matter now, though? Soros and the Democrats will just create a new organization to violate federal election laws for '08.
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