Opinion · 117th Congress
Why ‘no corporate PAC money’ pledges are important
One of the steps we took was to encourage members of Congress to reject corporate PAC money.
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One of the steps we took was to encourage members of Congress to reject corporate PAC money.
If media reports are correct that the PAC spent on direct advertising only about a third of the $90 million it raised, with much going to board members and their companies, I suspect Democratic donors
with hundreds of thousands of past donations to the National Republican Congressional Committee, House and Senate members including Perdue and Isakson, and $750,000 to Mitt Romney’s presidential super PAC
Carr, the president and CEO of Higher Heights for America PAC, a national organization that focuses on mobilizing and elevating the voices of black women, said in a statement about the candidate her group
president unleashed a bitter Twitter attack on the “globalist Koch Brothers,” excoriating as “overrated” the network of conservative donors who have been the bulwark of congressional GOP funding in the super PAC
“Do you have a super PAC?” But even worse is having to make small talk with donors. As if I care about some elderly guy’s lumbago or what some woman just saw on cable TV.
The Koch Brothers and their network of Super PAC contributors have announced plans to spend as much as $400 million on the 2018 elections to ensure that the Republicans retain control of Capitol Hill
explicitly recognize only two types of “political committees” that may be “established, financed, maintained or controlled” by a federal candidate or elected official: a campaign committee and a leadership PAC