MarketPlace: Candidates and Parties Join to Solicit Bigger Checks

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Tara Malloy, deputy executive director of the Campaign Legal Center warned back then that lifting those limits would create an easy path around campaign contribution caps.

Sometimes you’d like to say ‘I told you so,’” Malloy said. “But here it’s a bittersweet thing to have to say.”

According to Malloy, what she and the Campaign Legal Center warned would happen, is happening.

“The aggregate amounts are given to all the different groups and then simply transferred back,” she said. “Often to the big party committees, the RNC or the DNC, which then use it for the headlining presidential candidate.”

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