EAO 614

By definition, two or more persons must act in concert with a principal purpose of making political expenditures or accepting political contributions to form a political committee. If a group of persons form a nonprofit corporation that has as a principal purpose accepting political contributions or making political expenditures, the corporation is a political committee. To determine whether a group has a principal purpose of making political expenditures, the TEC will consider all the facts and circumstances concerning the group’s actual and planned activities related to making political expenditures.