It looks like George Soros is a member of the 80%, as his PAC was fined for illegal campaign contributions.
Anyone surprised?
Soros linked group hit with huge fine
The PoliticoThe Federal Election Commission (FEC) 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.
America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.
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.
ACT, which operations in 2005, was formed in late 2003 and rapidly deployed an enormous organization to do the retail-level grunt work of politics.
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 FEC dismissed allegations that that Kerry's campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign laws by coordinating with ACT or accepting excessive contributions from the group.
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