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Colbert Super Pac

January 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on Colbert Super Pac 

Colbert Super PacColbert Super Pac, Running for president is hard work. But for comedian Stephen Colbert, who announced his plans to “explore” a presidential bid in South Carolina earlier this week, it’s not the long hours of campaigning or the intense public scrutiny that weighed against his decision to run, it was giving up control of his Super PAC.

“To do this exploratory committee, I had to give away my Super PAC,” Colbert told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview Sunday morning on “This Week.” “That’s my baby. Do you know how hard it is to give away a baby? Now imagine if that baby had a whole lot of money. Imagine how much harder that would be to give away.”

Colbert is using his faux bid for the White House to draw attention to new campaign finance laws that allow unnamed donors to pour unlimited funds into super PACs, which can spend that money to support political candidates as long as they do not directly coordinate with a candidate.

“Why would you worry about what money is doing to the political process?” Colbert said, a twinge of sarcasm in his voice. “There are $11.2 million worth of ads being run in South Carolina. That just means more speech than ever before in South Carolina.”

Colbert’s super PAC, which was re-named The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC after Colbert announced his exploratory committee, launched an ad in South Carolina this week labeling Mitt Romney a “serial killer.”

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