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Street $1,000 and J Street would "rec-
ommend" certain candidates to sup-
port. The donor then would decide
where to direct his or her dollars and
write a check to J Street, which would
subsequently cut a check to those
candidates accompanied by informa-
tion outlining specifically who the
money came from.
Utilizing this method allowed J
Street to raise unlimited amounts for
its endorsees because contributions
counted against the $4,600 limit on
donations that an individual can
give to a specific candidate during
an election cycle, not the $10,000-
per-candidate restriction on political
action committees. So, for example,
J Street managed to send $91,000 to
Democrat Jeff Merkley in his race
against incumbent Sen. Gordon
Smith, R-Ore., while PACs using the
more traditional method would only
have been able to distribute $10,000
to a candidate in the race.
NORPAC also acted as a conduit,
using a slightly different method.
Chouake said his group would spon-
sor an event for a politician and col-
lect individual checks made out to the
candidate, bundling them and giving
them to the candidate under the
NORPAC umbrella. Like in the case
of J Street, the individual is credited
with the contribution, but NORPAC
receives recognition as well.
While both methods are legal,
most PACs choose not to operate this
way because the reporting process
is much more complicated and time
consuming, said experts.
Amitay said it is was comparing
apples and oranges to put his PAC,
which contributed more than $170,000
to candidates using the more traditional
method, next to J Street's model. Ben-
Ami disagreed and responded with his
own fruit metaphor, saying J Street was
merely "injecting the apple with growth
hormone'
Some pro-Israel activists noted that
J Street's total represented only a frac-
tion of the money raised by all other
pro-Israel PACs.
The Open Secrets Web site totaled
more than $2.5 million in donations
from all single-issue pro-Israel PACs
for the 2008 cycle, and that doesn't
include the additional millions of
dollars pro-Israel individuals donated
and raised for candidates across the
country without the backing of an
organization, Grossman said.
"I have enormous respect" for what
J Street accomplished, he said, but it
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