# Let's start a PAC! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 1, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071 "2012-01-01T19:32:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/1 "2012-01-01T19:32:10Z")
New year, full of possibility, including lots of possible suck. I think I’ll start a Political Action Committee. FEC guidelines available here: > **[Help for candidates and committees - FEC.gov](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/)** > > FEC help for federal candidates, PACs, party committees and separate segregated funds (i.e., corporate/labor/trade PACs), including help with accepting contributions, making disbursements and filing financial reports I don’t _think_ I’ll call it DoperPAC, but I see how one could. What would a DoperPAC look like? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/2 "2012-01-04T04:39:03Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > What would a DoperPAC look like? It would raise money for the wonkiest candidates for Congress. The 2 incumbent front runners would be rocket scientist [Rush Holt](http://www.answers.com/topic/rush-d-holt-jr-1) and oddly enough former satirist Senator Al Franken. Oh, and we’d need to rebrand. CecilPAC would work. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/3 "2012-01-04T05:46:43Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > I don’t _think_ I’ll call it DoperPAC, but I see how one could. No, call it StraightDPAC. Get some conservative dollars. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/4 "2012-01-04T06:53:02Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > It would raise money for the wonkiest candidates for Congress. The wonkiest candidates of the left, I imagine. I can’t see much money going from a Doper PAC to a right-wing candidate, wonky or not. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/5 "2012-01-04T10:10:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > No, call it StraightDPAC. Get some conservative dollars. Not happening. This place has way too many liberal wackadoodles. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/6 "2012-01-04T14:27:20Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Not happening. This place has way too many liberal wackadoodles. Donors don’t have to know that, do they? And if they ever find out . . . Ignorance fought! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/7 "2012-01-04T16:18:08Z")
> [@cckerberos](#): > > The wonkiest candidates of the left, I imagine. I can’t see much money going from a Doper PAC to a right-wing candidate, wonky or not. **Candidates?!** I thought this was gonna be an issues PAC. The top issue on the agenda is pot-decrim, and the second issue . . . _puff_ . . . eh, we’ll think of one. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/8 "2012-01-04T18:29:16Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] No, call it StraightDPAC. Get some conservative dollars. [/QUOTE] I don’t think conservatives would go for it, not when someone pointed out to them what ‘DP’ stands for. Even if we are talking Straight DP I’m guessing conservative types my shy away. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/9 "2012-01-04T19:50:36Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I don’t think conservatives would go for it, not when someone pointed out to them what ‘DP’ stands for. Even if we are talking Straight DP I’m guessing conservative types my shy away. 😛 > > -XT Considering how long it took them to figure out “tea bagger”, I wouldn’t worry too much about DP. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-start-a-pac/608071/10 "2012-01-04T21:27:52Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Considering how long it took them to figure out “tea bagger”, I wouldn’t worry too much about DP. Aren’t generational-cultural differences amazing?