It’s America Coming Together (ACT). The organization raised $137 million in 2004 to get voters to vote Liberal. An FEC investigation found that most of those donations violated federal donor limits.
The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections…
The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.
The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history…
It opened more than 90 offices in 17 states from which it mobilized an army of more than 25,000 paid canvassers and volunteers to knock on doors, stuff envelopes and make phone calls urging voters to defeat President Bush and support Democratic or “progressive” candidates including Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate.
The fine does nothing, of course. It’s just a fraction of the money raised, despite the donations violating FEC laws, and comes years after the election. The group is now defunct.


by Stephan Tawney on August 29, 2007