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Francisco “Quico” Canseco (R-Texas), who shared his thoughts on being targeted by a Latino super PAC.
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Francisco “Quico” Canseco (R-Texas), who shared his thoughts on being targeted by a Latino super PAC.
In September, the PAC brought on Whalen, a former top aide to Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), to expand its political and communications operation.
Mitt Romney’s super PAC, run by his closest advisers.
American Bridge, the Democratic super PAC, has a super tracker who is hot on the trail of Florida’s Republican delegation, attending public events and recording them with a small camera.
• The executive director of the Democrat-friendly Majority PAC, Monica Dixon, is married to one of the consultants doing work for the super PAC.
There’s a PAC for That Attention lobbyists: Are you fiscally conservative and socially liberal? Well, there’s a PAC for that — almost.
The former Speaker’s strategy became the center of conversation after Winning Our Future, a super PAC supporting Gingrich’s campaign, released a 28-minute video depicting Romney as a corporate opportunist
FreedomWorks for America, a super PAC launched by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey’s (Texas) libertarian advocacy group, plans to debut the tool nationally in the coming weeks.
Also in South Carolina, a pro-Santorum super PAC called the Red, White and Blue Fund has announced plans to spend $190,000 on pro-Santorum TV ads starting this weekend.
PAC treasurer Charles Hurley acknowledged the sum “is pencil dust” in the big-spending world of presidential politics.
The Draft Herman Cain PAC alerted the FEC in late November that it would rename itself the Beat Obama PAC. The PAC has yet to publicly disclose its funding sources.
Boosting the PAC total are unrestricted super PACs, which have raised $54.3 million so far.
The PAC raised $1.4 million from January to July, the most recent figures publicly available.
At issue is whether the super PAC known as Make Us Great Again shared video footage with campaign officials for Perry, the governor of Texas.
PAC organizers did not respond to a request for comment, but a spokesman for the Texas governor told CBS there was no coordination between the campaign and the PAC.
Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), the co-chairman of the Blue Dog PAC, said in a statement. “They want mature leadership capable of solving problems.
Crossroads GPS and its affiliated Karl Rove-guided super PAC American Crossroads will spend a combined $240 million during the 2012 presidential and Congressional elections, according to cited reports
how to lead, knows how to create jobs, and save taxpayers money — and in these trying economic times, that’s exactly what we all need more of in Washington,” Huckabee said in a statement on his Huck PAC
Pelosi’s campaign account doled out $2,000 to Duckworth on Oct. 19, and her leadership PAC gave Duckworth $5,000 on the same day. Reid’s Searchlight Leadership PAC gave $2,500 on Nov. 28.
People mill around a small room in Acqua Al 2 for a PAC fundraiser.