An independent campaign finance watchdog group says the pro-Romney Super PAC, Restore Our Future, may have broken the law.
The law obliges the group to have no cooperation with Mitt Romney’s campaign. However, as with many pro-candidate Super PACs, it’s made up of many former staffers from Romney’s previous campaigns.
The group recently repurposed an ad (which you can see below) from Romney’s first run for President and claimed it as their own. However, according to the Huffington Post, the Campaign Legal Center says that violates one of the coordination laws, which apparently forbids a Super PAC from republishing campaign material.
From the HuffPo:
Restore Our Future’s treasurer Charles Spies told The Huffington Post via an email that the group “purchased the rights to the footage from it’s [sic] owner Cold Harbor films, which did not entail interacting with the Romney campaign.”
The Campaign Legal Center’s Ryan, however, said that this would not matter, according to the FEC rule about republication of campaign materials: “If the ad was prepared by Romney or an agent of Romney, then this rule applies. The rule would be meaningless if you could transfer the legal rights from the campaign to another actor.”
