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[Quote]If fundraising tallies are any indication, Stephen Colbert’s super PAC gag may be getting old.
The committee set up by the satirist to poke fun at campaign finance rules raised slightly more than $33,000 last month, according to a Thursday night filing with the Federal Election Commission.
That’s a sharp drop off from January, when the super PAC raised $219,000, or the second half of last year, when it pulled in $825,000.
Still, the super PAC, which is technically known as Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Inc., spent only $17,000 in February, mostly on media consulting, leaving nearly $780,000 in the bank.
That’s plenty of cash for the faux pundit to use to make mischief through joke ads as the presidential campaign progresses.
Colbert started his super PAC as part of an ongoing gag on his late-night Comedy Central show highlighting the impact of a pair of 2010 federal court rulings that led to the creation of super PACs and allowed them to accept unlimited contributions from corporations, unions and individuals.
Yet, the PAC has accepted very few of the sort of big contributions that were illegal prior to the rulings, and in February, its biggest contribution was a $500 check from suburban Seattle retiree David Robinson.
The PAC paid $12,500 for media consulting and $2,700 for fundraising consulting and web services from a well-known Alexandria, Va., GOP firm run by Becki Donatelli, a veteran of the GOP presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain.
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Funny how some of the GOP troll commenters don't get it
We need more ads from this man.
If we can't have an election with decent candidates, we might as well have this man make fun of them for the rest of the year.
The best way to point out what is wrong with the system? Do it
I fucking love Colbert.
I like how the right is freaking out about Super PACS when anyone but them uses it.
[quote]Stephen Colbert’s super PAC gag may be getting old.[/quote]
I don't really understand what this is supposed to mean.
He raised $780,000
as a joke.
Can't wait for new commercials like this :v:
[video=youtube;3ZTvdHQ0YKk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTvdHQ0YKk[/video]
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