“Super PAC timing raises questions”

Politico: “Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign and conservative mega-super PAC American Crossroads each went up Tuesday with attack videos accusing President Barack Obama of wasting billions of dollars in stimulus money, highlighted by now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra .Obama and Priorities USA Action, a super PAC run by a pair of his former White House staffers, earlier this month released separate ads hours apart from one another panning Romney for his leadership of private equity firm Bain Capital, using the testimony of laid-off employees to do it.Call it coordination or call it coincidence, but it’s clear there’s no robust mechanism, and little government appetite, to dissuade moneyed campaigns and super PACs from dancing near or around rules governing concerted activity and messaging which, strictly speaking, isn’t legal.”

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