So Campaign for Liberty is being investigated by the FEC?

[BamaFanNKy]

So what gives?

[FrankRep]

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then you win.

FEC Attempts to Shut Down Campaign for Liberty
http://www.infowars.com/fec-attempts-to-shut-down-campaign-for-liberty/

[Galileo Galilei]

It sounds like some alleged technical violation regarding the borderline between advocating for issues and advocating for candidates.

[Elwar]

Liberal use of the acronym "CFL" has been creating an uproar with the Canadian Football League. The FEC is coming down hard as a good will gesture to Canadian football fans.

[BamaFanNKy]

Liberal use of the acronym "CFL" has been creating an uproar with the Canadian Football League. The FEC is coming down hard as a good will gesture to Canadian football fans.

More so since Ricky Williams could be associated with either group:
http://cdn.picapp.com/ftp/Images/1/4/c/f/4c.jpg

[erowe1]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=228824)

[FrankRep]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=228824)

Good call.

[dean.engelhardt]

Could this involve the Ken Buck commercial that many viewed as an endorsement?

[low preference guy]

so what's the worst that can happen to C4L? can they shut it down?

[erowe1]

so what's the worst that can happen to C4L? can they shut it down?

I don't imagine that. My uneducated guess is fining them, maybe charging them some kind of back taxes calculated out of what benefits they have as a 501(c)(4) that they wouldn't have if they were a 527 or something.

[Matt Collins]

I just wish they would decouple their informational e-mails from their fund-raising e-mails.

[BamaFanNKy]

I stopped opening their emails. It's worse than signing up with a pyramid marketing company.

[Galileo Galilei]

so what's the worst that can happen to C4L? can they shut it down?

a slap on the hand and stand in the corner for three days.

[Anti Federalist]

Surprise, surprise, surprise. (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=228824)

Nicely done, good call.

The Collins nailed the response as well:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=2772217&postcount=32


Matt Collins
Senior Member
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I think that everyone is in some violation of the FEC, but it's just selectively enforced.

That's the standard operating procedure of an authoritarian police state. They make the laws expansive, complex, and so easy to break that everyone ends up breaking them eventually. Then the government always has something to hang over the heads of the People - penalties for breaking the law.

[Matt Collins]

The Collins nailed I usually do! :D ;):p

[pacelli]

I just wish they would decouple their informational e-mails from their fund-raising e-mails.

I'm not getting them anymore. I found their information to be worthless.

[freshjiva]

I'm not getting them anymore. I found their information to be worthless.

There are a lot of educational articles and op-eds published by CFL that the daily email updates contain. Frequent contributors include Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Jacob Hornberger, excerpts from Hayek and Mises, and others.

A lot of these pieces are extremely substantive.

[erowe1]

There are a lot of educational articles and op-eds published by CFL that the daily email updates contain. Frequent contributors include Ron Paul, Tom Woods, Jacob Hornberger, excerpts from Hayek and Mises, and others.

A lot of these pieces are extremely substantive.

But anything of that sort is available on the main page of the CFL website's main page anyway, along with plenty of other high quality informative articles and blog posts that they don't send out in their emails.