11:31 am, March 22nd, 2013
Comedy Central?s Stephen Colbert assisted Washington?s Campaign Legal Center on Thursday in dedicating the CLC?s new Ham Rove Memorial Conference Room ? named after a canned ham bearing a remarkable resemblance to a certain Republican campaign operative that made an appearances on the Colbert Report during the 2012 Presidential campaign.
The conference room ? which now displays a life-sized portrait of Colbert ? was established as a condition of the CLC?s acceptance of a $136,852 donation from The Ham Rove Memorial Fund ?? one of several? entities, beginning with the Colbert Super PAC,? that Legal Center President and D.C. attorney Trevor Potter helped Colbert create during the campaign.
With Potter?s help, Colbert created the Colbert Super PAC, the related Colbert Super PAC SHH and ultimately the Ham Rove Memorial Fund ? which became the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of dollars that, courtesy of federal campaign finance and tax laws, had vanished without a trace from the Colbert Super PAC following the 2012 election last November.
?You have to admire a man who gives you his untraceable 501(c)(4) money, knowing you?ll use it in an attempt to shut down untraceable 501(c)(4) money,? said Legal Center Executive Director J. Gerald Hebert as Colbert?s portrait was unveiled. ?We hope to use Mr. Colbert?s generous donation to bring about much needed reforms in the campaign finance arena.?
Said Potter: ?That coverage did more to educate the American public on the fallout from the [U.S. Supreme Court?s] Citizens United decision, secret money in campaigns and problems with the [Federal Election Commission?s] and IRS?s non-enforcement of the laws, than anything else in the last election cycle.?
The Colbert Report was honored with a Peabody Award for the Colbert Super PAC segments that featured Potter.
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