Case Study: The Free Blind Siberian Tiger Cubs For Orphans

With electing candidates, the PAC can offer anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 towards a candidate committee, or a national party committee. With money being a sole factor with the PAC, it plays as a huge role with power being that it determines influence when it comes to elections and/or legislation. Another similar Political Action Committee is known as the Super PAC, raises an unlimited amount of funds from corporations, unions, associations, and citizens. The Super PAC spends its funds towards advocating for or against political candidates at a federal level. With the unlimited amounts of money being brought to the Super PAC, they must undergo a monthly reporting of their funds to the Federal Election

• 6 – 8 million cats and dogs enter shelters each year, of which 3 – 4 million are euthanized (nearly 10,000 per day).

Every single day thousands of helpless animals are abused or killed, but is every one aware this goes on or that they can help stop this from happening? To try and put an end to animal cruelty, The ASPCA or American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a non-profit organization, made a television commercial that broke everyone’s hearts. During this commercial it shows many picture and clips of weak and abused animals. Throughout, the commercial a very somber song is playing In the Arms of an Angel, sung by Sarah McLachlan. Before the commercial ends with one last video of a sad dog staring at you, McLachlan asks for donations to help improve the lifes of these animals. This commercial creates a guilty and sad feeling for the audience by using many techniques to make the audience feel compassion and want to donate to help out the animals in need of help.

In recent elections on the congressional level as well as for President we see the growing influences of interest groups in the form of PAC’s and Super PAC’s to back candidates. Super PAC’s can spend an unrestricted amount money to support a certain problems or candidate but cannot donate directly to the campaigns. PAC’s work with campaigns directly reallocating donations to candidates and parties.

Beto explains what advocacy means in town meetings and mentions that money is deeply corrosive to policy, outcomes and our democracy. Not everyone that serves in congress is seen as dependable with the 10% approval rating from citizens but when he was sworn in, he found out that they turned out to be hard working and service oriented. The reason for it having a low approval rate was that every single decision is driven by money which influences the way that congress vote on the 2,000 legislations that comes before them. At the end of the day, money won’t change people’s issues and Beto promises that it will never even change his. Beto asked to be on the Veteran affair committee which is seen as an unpopular undertaking and claims to be one of two people who do not take a dime of money from special interest groups. He assures that the public doesn’t have to worry if he is voting for something with ulterior motives. Beto and Ro Khanna from California are the two congressmen that don’t take PAC money and want to generate a bill that removes PAC money from politics. From his organizations findings, they were able to

The ASPCA is an amazing organization that has provided aid for thousands of animals. ASPCA stands for American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and it has groups all over the world working to better the lives of animals and protect them from abuse. My group’s presentation showed what the values of the ASPCA are and why people should donate to it. My groups presentation successfully presented the ASPCA is convincing way to get people to donate. We did this by showing authoritative figures that support the ASPCA and by showing the amount of animals that are hurt or killed each day as well as the amount of animals that are saved. We were also successful because we showed how the general public can help ASPCA foundation.

Candidate-centered campaigns need financial support in order to win elections, the current state of campaign funding largely looks at campaign contributor motives, which is a component part to understanding funding disparities. Individuals support ideological candidates through donations (Barber 2014; La Raja and Schaffner 2015), and large funding backers, mainly interest groups, contribute financial support to incumbent candidates to gain access to decision-making (Fouirnaies and Hall 2014). Political parties seek to support their party’s candidate, while Super PACs financially support ideological candidates in competitive elections (Miller and Dowling 2012; La Raja and Schaffner 2015; Desmarais, La Raja, Kowal 2015). The motives for financially backing a

New PACs formed with each election year and they had the ability to fund a candidate of their choice, and to force that candidate to try to carry out the organization's goals, no matter how detrimental. Ultimately, PACs lead to Super PACs, which, in addition to sharing many attributes to PACs, can raise and donate significantly larger sums of money, and hide the names of their donors for long periods of time. Additionally, Independent Expenditures organizations face no restrictions on the amount of money they can raise, and 501(c) groups can completely conceal the identities of their donors for the duration of an election season. In fact, 501(c) groups have become so powerful that they provide approximately half the money used during election seasons with the hope of swaying citizens to vote for their favored candidate. (Karlan 13) These organizations clearly demonstrate the effect and the power that money holds in both elections and the government in general. However, Pamela S. Karlan, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, shares this message: “However, money is only one symptom of a deeper political pathology.” This serves as a reminder that dollar bills can not singularly take blame for the uncertainty in our

The effects of the SuperPACs is something Americans are hearing more and more about in the 2016 campaign. Do Americans have a good understanding of what SuperPACs are and how they can affect the Presidential election.? This is something that needs to be discussed. As Americans, don’t we have the right to know who is financing the elections? These are only a few of the questions many people should be asking themselves.

The PAC lobbies at a Federal level by endorsing candidates, speaking at political gatherings, and gathering petitions.

I’ve created a campaign for the North Shore Animal League and it will be based on animal rights. The goal I want my message to achieve is how it’s not acceptable for animals to be abused and abandoned. I’ve chosen animal rights as my issue because upon growing up in Brooklyn I’ve encountered many dogs who were abused by their owners and were able to get away with it which really upset me. A propaganda campaign is needed to raise public awareness for the animals that are abused and homeless in hopes of people having a heart and adopting them.

The next point to the rhetorical situation is the audience. In the case of the Charleston Animal Society their main demographic is people who are pet owners or pet lovers. Using advertisements that make people feel empathy for the animals which makes the targeted people want to donate and help their cause. The typical age group of these people tends to be younger and with the use of technology as their main source of information the targeted people have to be a little tech-savvy. CAS has multiple fundraisers throughout the year that the people that want to help can, which raises money for the organization and helps the sheltered animals

Kevin Murphy, President of the Berks County Community Foundation in Pennsylvania, has vowed to abide by the 1954 law stating his organization would not make any contributions to any candidates nor try to direct the outcome of any election. “I cannot think of a more serious threat to the very existence of our nonprofit sector than breaking down the wall that has separated it from electoral politics. Allowing nonprofits to make political contributions or support candidates for elected office will undermine donor confidence and public support that the sector relies on to do its work (BCCF 2017).”

Considering the presidential primary season is underway, there is a lot of debate around whether or not Super PACs are considered a form of corruption in government. Many Americans believe that because of Super PACs, the elected candidate will favor the ideals of the large-contributors who helped fund their campaign “indirectly”. This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which Super PACs may corrupt democracy. Using surveys from the Brennan Center for Justice and data from both Yale and Seton Hall Law, we discover theories on how people view Super PACs and their role in American democracy. The conclusion of our research suggests that Super PACs are undemocratic in both the sense that only a very small proportion of Americans actually get to

The overall mission of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is to “be a voice for animals” (ASPCA). That mission is accomplished by providing an appealing website that effectively educates visitors not only on the major concerns but also on the need for their involvement if they hope to make progress towards solving those issues. Through continued traffic, to their website, the ASPCA aims to gain new supporters who they hope will become educators and ambassadors of their mission to further reduce the number of homeless animals and to end animal