Federal Election Commission guidelines include a 120-day “cooling off” period after an operative leaves a campaign to work for an allied group, but there is disagreement about what exactly is allowed during that time. Davis left the campaign July 27, or 111 days before the super PAC’s ad began airing Tuesday.
An attorney for Our Destiny PAC says Davis is well within the bounds of FEC guidelines because the group did not rely on any inside information from his time with the Huntsman campaign to produce the new ad.
“The rule is not a hard-and-fast prohibition on vendors or employees working on an independent expenditure committee for 120 days after they leave a campaign,” said the group’s attorney, Ronald M. Jacobs of Venable LLP. “We have been very careful to make certain that all of Our Destiny PAC’s activities comply with this rule and that no inside information was used in creating the new advertisements.”
Influence Industry: New ad shows cozy ties between super PACs and candidates
