EPISODE NUMBER: 8079 (April 3, 2012)
GUESTS: Nikki Haley | Trevor Potter
SEGMENTS: Colbert Super PAC – Super Fun Pack Not-Legal Advice & Certificate of Presidenthood | Colbert Super PAC SHH! – 501c4 Disclosure | Rick Santorum Speaks from His Heart – California Colleges
SUIT REPORT: Dark suit | White shirt | Light blue tie
VIDEOS: April 3, 2012
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Perhaps no man has made Super PACs more well-known than comedian Stephen Colbert. And he wouldn’t be able to do that without the help of his attorney, former FEC commissioner Trevor Potter. Potter said the disclosures come too late and too slowly to help voters make decisions.
Tuesday was the day when all of the Super PACs had to report their fundraising for the current election cycle.
While a Mitt Romney-related Super PAC brought in the most money, more than $30 million, the bulk since last July, a smaller Super PAC is generating a massive amount of attention. That would be the Stephen Colbert Super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Colbert Super PAC raised more than $850,000 — almost exclusively from individual donors. The Romney-related Super PAC, Restore Our Future Super PAC, generated its contributions from big donors, including 10 who gave $1 million each. Learn more about donors and how much they gave from The New York Times’ interactive graphic of Super PACs and their donors.
But for Colbert, who has regularly waded into politics over the years, his Super PAC isn’t really a way to influence voters in favor of one candidate or another. Instead, it’s a source of jokes and, perhaps, a way to educate American voters on what Colbert and many others consider to be the downright ludicrous elements of America’s campaign finance laws.
Full Article: PRI.org and TheTakeAway.org
THis Week in the Hub, The Huffington Post asks ‘Could Stephen Colbert be the next Pope?’, Herman Cain praises Stephen Colbert in his Tea Party State Of The Union response, Trevor Potter feels the ‘Colbert Bump’ and a Company DVD release is announced.
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Trevor Potter – Part 2
EPISODE NUMBER: 8079 (April 3, 2012)
GUESTS: Nikki Haley | Trevor Potter
SEGMENTS: Colbert Super PAC – Super Fun Pack Not-Legal Advice & Certificate of Presidenthood | Colbert Super PAC SHH! – 501c4 Disclosure | Rick Santorum Speaks from His Heart – California Colleges
SUIT REPORT: Dark suit | White shirt | Light blue tie
VIDEOS: April 3, 2012
Continue reading
THis Week in the Hub, The Huffington Post asks ‘Could Stephen Colbert be the next Pope?’, Herman Cain praises Stephen Colbert in his Tea Party State Of The Union response, Trevor Potter feels the ‘Colbert Bump’ and a Company DVD release is announced.
Continue reading