Distribution Policy

The FSPAC’s Board of Directors meets regularly to approve contributions to individual candidates. The Board uses a checklist of questions in determining which candidates to support. By law, the FSPAC is allowed to contribute up to $10,000 total to the election campaign of a single federal candidate ($5,000 for the primary campaign and $5,000 for the general election).

The FSPAC is bipartisan in distributing funding, though in the last election cycle we distributed approximately 73% of our funding to Republican candidates. This funding breakdown reflected four facts:

• Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress;
• More than twice as many Greeks in Congress are Republican than Democrats;
• Most of the PAC’s donors to date who list a political affiliation are Republican; and
• Republicans are currently more supportive of the PAC’s policy objectives.

With the Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress, the PAC’s contributions will be more balanced between the parties this cycle.

The PAC contributes to Greeks and non-Greeks. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of support for Greek policy causes or be involved with committees with jurisdiction over issues of concern to Greeks. For Senate candidates, we will focus most of our attention on supporting candidates who are up for reelection in 2008, as opposed to those candidates who are not running again until 2010 or 2012. While the PAC will spend most of its funding in the first 18 months of the election cycle, we will reserve some of its funding for distribution in the summer and fall of 2008 to Greeks running for Congress for the first time.