Monday, October 5, 2009

2 More Labor Organizations file with SBE

Two new kids on the block in today's VPAP update on new PAC registrations.

1. SEIU Committee on Political Education or SEIU COPE is a Federal PAC. Check them out at OpenSecrets.org. Service Employees' International Union already has several funds investing in Virginia. Registering SEIU COPE brings them to 4. The others are the SEIU Local 32BJ NY/NJ American Dream Fund, SEIU District 82-Washington, DC, and the SEIU Headquarters 527 Committee. No idea why there are so many, unless it's just to make it harder to figure out how much they're spending. We'll know more with the Oct 15 reports.

2. Mid-Atlantic Community Fund is a 527. That makes it difficult to track down. There's a similarly-named 527 at OpenSecrets called the Mid Atlantic Leadership Fund (see here). And an organization with the same name has filed reports with D.C.'s Office of Campaign Finance showing mostly labor organizations as donors (see here). It also shares an address with the Working Families for Change, a labor PAC that gave $9,800 to Brian Moran's gubernatorial campaign.