Since we will be discussing the subject of super PACs and political fundraising in class tomorrow... looks like Obama is now endorsing super PACs in an interesting (if not unexpected) decision:
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72531.html#ixzz1lismmfld
President Barack Obama — in an act of hypocrisy or necessity, depending on the beholder — has reversed course and is now blessing the efforts of a sputtering super PAC, Priorities USA Action, organized to fight GOP dark-money attacks.
On Monday morning, Obama reviled the “negative” tone of the super PACs, a dominant fundraising source in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. But by the evening, word leaked to POLITICO that Obama had offered his support for Priorities USA Action, which thus far has raised a fraction of what GOP-backed groups have raked in.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72531.html#ixzz1lismmfld
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