FEC Complaint Filed Against DeSantis Campaign and SuperPAC for Illegal Coordination
By Sundance
Given Federal Election Commission (FEC) campaign finance laws and limits therein, any outside superPAC is forbidden from coordinating with the official campaign of the candidate.
Over the years, the use of SuperPAC’s to fund campaigns has become increasingly obvious as the lines were blurred. The DeSantis campaign and Never Back Down SuperPAC took ‘obvious’ to an entirely new level within the 2024 election effort. Now a complaint has been filed.
The coordination between the Never Back Down group and the DeSantis campaign has been brutally obvious. NBD even pays for almost all the campaign expenses and were not trying to hide the coordination when the Florida Governor was touring Iowa riding on the Never Back Down bus.
Additionally, DeSantis campaign managers even held donor fundraising events with the leadership of Never Back Down at the same venue, delivering speeches to the same audience, and generally being obvious with their enmeshed operation.
However, it’s still illegal by FEC rules and the complaint filed is most likely to lead to significant action by the FEC. Prior to 2023 the most brutally obvious coordination was between Carly Fiorina and the Super PAC “Carly for America” in 2015/2016.
Factually, almost all the Fiorina campaign expenses were paid by the CfA Super PAC. Interestingly, in June 2015 it was Ted Cruz’s “Keep The Promise” Super PAC that funded the $500,000 seed money for Carly Fiorina before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy: Learn more.
That Cruz to Fiorina seed money was one of the visible “tripwires” in our “splitter strategy” outlining how the professional republican apparatus constructs the illusion of choice. Cruz was campaigning in 2015/16 for the same intents as DeSantis in 2023/24, that’s why the participants are identical.
Ted Cruz was funded in the 2016 race, to create the path for Jeb Bush. However, despite our efforts to show how obvious it was, still too few people were willing to accept that both the RNC and DNC corporations control the political systems and end up selecting the candidates. Most GOP voters believed the republican primary election was authentic and/or natural, it never was.
Fast-forward to today, and there has been a great awakening. With the continued visibility of Donald Trump in politics, more people see how the two private corporations collude with billionaires and multinational corporations to select the acceptable republican candidate. The cloud behind the “illusion of choice” has lifted, and thanks in no small part to the Never Trump movement, people can see how the GOPe control operation works.
I would make the argument the DeSantis 2024 operation was planned out long ago, around the time when DeSantis and Paul Ryan left congress (2018). That’s just how the professionally republican operations work. They are always positioning their efforts long before anyone is paying attention. It is not coincidental to me that this was the exact same time when Nikki Haley left the Trump administration.
Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for the deaf/blind professional republican apparatus who ignore us, the playbook used by the RNC club, billionaire donors, multinationals, and DC control officers is failing. There has been a great awakening, and MAGA base voters moved faster and with more intensity than their Bernie Sanders counterparts on the other wing of the UniParty.
The MAGA base had the fortunate insight from the GOPe effort to destroy the Tea Party movement. All those abusive memories came back into play in 2016, and they still remain to this day. Presidential candidate Donald Trump represents the second party in the political dynamic, and the broad American working class have figured it all out.
Donald Trump represents We The People, and that’s ultimately why the professional DC system is trying to eliminate him. They will fail, just like their DeSantis operation failed.
