THE PRICE ON THE TAG IS THE PRICE YOU PAY! 41111110 Loadedt Loaded! y 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. 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