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| A scam PAC's page made to look like West's campaign page |
They're piggybacking off his name, presumably because he is one of Congress's most successful fundraisers. From Politico, about the conservative Republican Congressman: "Political operatives can create a PAC and corresponding
website on the cheap, drop some cash to rent an email list and, voilà —
in come the small-dollar contributions from grass-roots Republicans
eager to support any effort aiming to turn out President Barack Obama or
reelect the fiery West. Except those chunks of $25 and $50 don’t often find their way to any serious campaigns to beat Obama or boost West. 'The vast majority of the groups that we know are engaged in this
have done nothing for West,' said Jill Holtzman Vogel, the congressman’s
campaign attorney. And, with the outfits that have given to West, those contributions
pale in comparison to the money they’ve raised using the freshman
Republican’s name. According to media trackers and West campaign officials, none of the
many conservative super PACs purportedly raising money for the
congressman is airing TV ads on his behalf."
More: "The Florida Republican’s campaign has sent cease-and-desist letters
to a number of the groups and filed complaints with the Federal Election
Commission, copies of which the campaign shared with POLITICO. But the
organizations have been only mildly deterred and some continue to raise
funds for themselves with marketing that would suggest they represent
the actual campaign. One organization, CAPE PAC, has a Google ad headlined, 'Allen West in
2012: Join our Campaign & Help Us.' The URL goes even further: It
is '
www.allenwest2012.co.' Yes, that’s '.co,' not '.com.' A click on the link takes the reader to CAPE PAC’s main home page,
something that a spokesman for the group said was a concession to the
West campaign’s demands. Previously, the link directed readers to a CAPE
PAC Web page meant to look like West’s
actual campaign site."
