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The goal of the matching money is to give participating, candidates a way to continue to get their ttres.sage our, when being outspent by non-participating candidates. Receiving this in f bimation once a week should he frequent enough for most of the campaign. Then during the last 3 weeks, participating candidates would need this inf onnation (and the matching finuLv) more quickly. The reports are based on contributions instead of expenditures, because once the candidate has the funds they have the option of spending them whenever theN� wish. Political Parties Contributions Political party units are prohibited from accepting contributions of more than $5,000 in aggregate contributions from an individual or association. The �gotil here is to a llo vv pat-ties to continue to raise enough to be parries -- recruit and trclirz C(rrl(lidate.s,do education on issues,get people involved. get their candidates elected and get out the vote -- but also to limit the amount of influence anY partic�ular person or entity can ha ve carp a political part•. F Political parties may participate the Political Contribution Refund program as long as they agree not to make any independent expenditures. As an c&)rt to help parties raiseftinds in sinall contributions, they will continue to be able to use the DSO Political Cc)ntributlon Ref irnd program. Since there tyre activities we would like parties to refrain from that we cannot otherwise prohibit, we have made them conditions of participating in the prograyn. We want parties to stop doing independent expenditures, and instead to work closely with their candidates to 'qet thein elected; it '.s hard for some to believe that parties can work closely vv t r the candidates and also do expenditures that are not coordinated at the same time. Expenditures All units of a political party are allowed to spend, in aggregate,up to 25%of the candidate's spending limit in coordination with a participating candidate. This spending limit applies to single- candidate and multi-candidate expenditures. Office Public Subsidy Maximum Party Contribution Total Spending Limit ( i) Governor $1,520,000 $3801000 $1,900,000 (2) AG, SoS, SA $3001000 $751000 $3751000 (3) Senate $371000 $91250 $461250 (4) House S 18.500 $41625 $231125 We avant political parries to ivor k on getting candidates elected; thus in almost all cases we allmv parties to spend money ill Coordination with candidates. Because m&i-candidate expenditures sometimes act as a loophole in current law, but are also good for park' building, thev are allowed but there are limits on what can be spent. We set the limit at 25% of the candidate `s spending limit, because this number would allow parties to play a sxtbstantial role in candidates' campaigns, but would not drown out the voice of independent or sing -pa rtv candidates. Political parties may not contribute more than 10 times the contribution limit for individuals to non- participating candidates. (current law)