Soft money

527 committees are the non-profits that have taken the place of PACs for collected unregulated amouts of cash to do political things. Like MoveOn.Org and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Read about them here:
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~29627~2350275,00.html

P.S. Blogger's new interface sucks! They seemed to have forgotten to put the formatting keys into the new look. So I can't bold or link or anything fun. Boo.