Facts About PACs Podcast

The Facts About PACs Podcast is the #1 PAC podcast in America. The show is produced especially for the members of the National Association of Business Political Action Committees (NABPAC). Each weekly episode includes a recap of the association's latest activities, actionable intelligence for the employee-funded and business trade association PAC community, and an interview with a featured guest. Show host Micaela Isler is the President and CEO of NAPBAC.

Facts About PACs Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 244 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Facts About PACs Podcast, a education show with 244 episodes published.

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  Episode #30

  Stuck in the 1970s

  Oct 1, 202618 minS7

  Fifty years ago, Buckley v. Valeo wrote the rules PACs still live by. This summer, the Supreme Court rewrote some of them. Former FEC Chairman Allen Dickerson , now a partner at BakerHostetler, joins Micaela Isler, David Schild and Adam Belmar to sort out what changed and what didn't. Parties can now coordinate with their candidates without limit. Super PACs have been unlimited since 2010. And the PAC your employees fund still writes the same $5,000 check Congress set in 1974. Allen calls that something of a scandal, and says fixing it is Congress's job. He also takes on donor disclosure in the internet age, the FEC without a quorum, and the paperwork that trips people up in the last weeks before Election Day. Episode Sponsor: Aristotle

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  Episode #29

  40 Days to Election: The PAC Director's Checklist

  Sep 24, 202626 minS7

  Forty days out, voting has already begun. Jim Ellis reads the map: early voting, a wild primary season, redistricting won in court, and why we may not know who controls Congress until Thanksgiving. Then the PAC director's checklist, from GOTV to the thank-you note. Episode Sponsor: Capital Bank https://capitalbankmd.com/

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  Episode #28

  Leader of the PAC with Caitlin Donahue

  Sep 17, 202627 min

  Caitlin Donahue started as a PAC coordinator in a chair behind the seat at the table. She ran the PAC at Procter & Gamble and the National Restaurant Association. Today her name is on the door at Seven Star Strategies . In our second Leader of the PAC, she shares the road and her golden rules with the NABPAC community.

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  Episode #27

  The Pitch, Not the Apology

  Sep 11, 202620 minS7

  Twenty-five years ago today, 2,975 people went to work, or got on a plane, or ran toward a building. Almost everybody listening remembers where they were. Your newest hire wasn't born yet. Your oldest donor remembers Scotty's Bar in Oklahoma City, 1977, when "PAC" was a word you didn't say in polite company and Washington had just written the new rules. Somewhere between those two people is the case for what you do — and this week Micaela, David, and Adam make it out loud.

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  Episode #26

  It's an Election, Not an Auction

  Aug 28, 202622 minS7

  Five Senate primaries this cycle. Five candidates with an enormous money advantage. Five losses. Dr. Casey Burgat of George Washington University joins Micaela Isler and Adam Belmar to work out what campaign money actually buys, and where it stops working. Casey’s Substack piece “ So Much for Buying Elections ” is the starting point, but the conversation turns practical fast: if the late advertising blitz has the worst return, what does that say about the PAC dollar written early, off a relationship, before anyone knows the race is competitive? Crash Course with Casey Burgat https://www.caseyburgat.com/

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