Daily News | The super PAC backing Jeff Brown’s mayoral campaign is asking a judge to toss the city ethics board’s lawsuit
accusing it of illegally coordinating with Brown, arguing that Brown’s work with the group cannot be viewed as coordination because it occurred before he launched his campaign.
Since at least 2018, the board has interpreted the law and its own regulations on super PAC coordination to mean that candidates cannot engage in fundraising or strategizing with outside spending groups for 12 months before an election — even if they have not yet publicly announced that they are running for office.
Before Brown, it was highly unusual for potential candidates for city office to personally solicit donations for independent expenditure campaigns that later back them. Electoral strategy is likely to change as well. Candidates often go to great lengths to ensure they do not run afoul of the coordination rules and usually cut off communications between their campaigns and the outside spending groups backing them once the group is formed or, in the case of pre-existing organizations, once the group decides to back them.
“The case is still out there. Why are you saying [it’s not?]” a reporter asked Brown on Thursday after“No, this case is settled,” Brown said. “They’re still saying they have the option to continue other action. But the case that was in front of the judge was settled.” White, the lawyer for the super PAC, disagreed with Brown’s claim, but declined to comment on why the candidate would maintain the case was settled.
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