Report: Montco Dems Gave $8,500 to Nonpartisan Lansdale PAC
A campaign finance report for 2012 for the Friends of Lansdale political action committee shows a major contribution from the Montgomery County Democratic Committee. The Lansdale PAC has also failed to submit required campaign finance reports.
A Lansdale political action committee (PAC) that identifies itself as nonpartisan has received thousands in contributions from the county Democratic organization, and has failed to file required documentation for its activities during the primary election cycle, according to county officials. The Montgomery County Democratic Committee in 2012 contributed $3,500, and in 2013 contributed $8,500, to the Friends of Lansdale Political Action Committee, according to 2012 and 2013 annual campaign finance reports. Yet, Friends of Lansdale, through its 2011 Political Committee Registration Statement, identifies itself as a nonpartisan PAC, meaning it has no affiliation to the Republican or Democratic parties. Furthermore, the PAC recorded that it …
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C. Smith
7:29 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2013
So, in the last 2 years, the Montgomery County Democratic Committee gave $12,000 to a local NON-PARTISAN PAC to influence elections in Lansdale? And $8,500 of that in the last few months? Even better, that PAC somehow has NO expenses to report, yet I've received at least 5 full-page full color mailers and a robo call? All to finance campaigns OUTSIDE of the endorsement process, while the actual … more ›