Super PACs Bring Big Bucks, Responsibilities

The newly authorized super PACs can collect unlimited amounts of money from corporations, unions and individuals to directly support and attack candidates, as long as they do not coordinate directly with candidates. Broadcast television and radio stations have broad discretion to accept or turn down candidate-targeted (and issue) ads by super PACs. But make sure that your treatment of all super PACs is the same. Stations must operate in the public interest, and lopsided access by organizations on one side of electoral or other questions could lead to complaints.