Um, when has it ever been okay for a candidate’s statewide election campaign to coordinate with a federal Political Action Committee and get a promised dollar amount as a “contribution”?

From Joe Gerth:

Adams said the campaign hopes to increase its fundraising in the last month of the campaign and has a pledge from the Western Reservation PAC to contribute $100,000.

The PAC is headed by Joe Miller, the tea party candidate from Alaska who narrowly lost a U.S. Senate race last year. Miller was in Louisville Thursday campaigning for Moffett.

Maybe we need to examine this advisory opinion (Warning: External PDF Link) from the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance in 1995:

KRS 121.150(1):
“No candidate, slate of candidates, campaign committee, political issues committee, nor anyone acting on their behalf shall have any communication with another person nor anyone on his behalf regarding that person’s making of an independent expenditure on behalf of that candidate, slate or committee prior to the time the independent expenditure is made.”?

The intent of the statute is to insure that independent expenditures are in fact “independent” and are not in any manner coordinated or suggested by the candidate’s campaign committee prior to the time the expenditure is made. As stated in the response to question number 5, an independent expenditure may not be coordinated with the campaign’s vendors who design, produce, or distribute the campaign’s paraphernalia.

Adams has admitted in the press and shown on Facebook that the campaign is coordinating with the outside group.

Maybe someone needs a refresher on the law in Kentucky if they want to be governor? Cause that’s potentially felonious.