Monkeyleg
Member.
Anyone who's read my posts lately knows I'm trying to organize a fund-raising banquet with Massad Ayoob as guest speaker in July.
I'd really wanted to have a raffle of guns, since I've been advised on THR and elsewhere that raffles bring in more money. The state gaming board, though, had told me four years ago that raffles were not allowed for political action committees.
Someone else recently told me otherwise.
So, I contacted the auditor I usually deal with at the state elections board, the agency that deals with politcal action committees, candidate committees, etc. He's very knowledgeable about the law. He also told me that political action committees have raffles all the time.
I then contacted the supervisor at the state gaming board. He told me that raffles for PAC's were not legal.
I cited the following from the gaming board's site that explains which groups can apply for a raffle license:
"Service: An organization which has, as a minimum, the benefit, the growth and the general welfare of the community as one of its principle purposes. This category includes a labor organization or political party, but excludes a trade association, a social club or a political group created exclusively for political purposes under whose name candidates appear on a ballot at any election."
The latter is a candidate committee, not a PAC.
He invited me to submit an application for review, but suggested that it would be denied. Given the four to six week wait for approval, that's not an option.
Do you ever get the feeling that government bureaucrats jerk folks around just for the fun of it? :banghead:
I'd really wanted to have a raffle of guns, since I've been advised on THR and elsewhere that raffles bring in more money. The state gaming board, though, had told me four years ago that raffles were not allowed for political action committees.
Someone else recently told me otherwise.
So, I contacted the auditor I usually deal with at the state elections board, the agency that deals with politcal action committees, candidate committees, etc. He's very knowledgeable about the law. He also told me that political action committees have raffles all the time.
I then contacted the supervisor at the state gaming board. He told me that raffles for PAC's were not legal.
I cited the following from the gaming board's site that explains which groups can apply for a raffle license:
"Service: An organization which has, as a minimum, the benefit, the growth and the general welfare of the community as one of its principle purposes. This category includes a labor organization or political party, but excludes a trade association, a social club or a political group created exclusively for political purposes under whose name candidates appear on a ballot at any election."
The latter is a candidate committee, not a PAC.
He invited me to submit an application for review, but suggested that it would be denied. Given the four to six week wait for approval, that's not an option.
Do you ever get the feeling that government bureaucrats jerk folks around just for the fun of it? :banghead:
