Saturday, April 14, 2012

Democratic super pacs

  • Fundraising by Democratic Super PACs is off to a slow start for the 2012 campaign season, compared with aggressive efforts by Republican groups that plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in fights for congressional seats and the White House.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • A network of Democratic outside groups boosting President Barack Obama and his congressional allies picked up its fundraising this year, but still lags woefully behind Republican outside groups that have already begun an attack-ad binge.
  • (Politico.com)
  • But super PACs don't have to push campaign spending into the stratosphere Campaign consultants often argue that fundraising is not so much a necessary evil as an important part of the democratic process.
  • (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • Yes, there will be Super PACs supporting Democrats as well as Republicans. But the Republican ones will dramatically outgun the Democratic ones, and its already happening. So far this cycle, conservative Super PACs have spent $80.
  • (DAILY KOS)
  • Barney Frank, is welcoming any help he can get from third-party groups in his uphill battle against likely Democratic opponent, Joseph P. Kennedy III, according to spokeswoman Sarah Rumpf.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Wisniewski is the current state Democratic Party chairman and former chairman "The system's become a mockery because now these super PACs can come in from the outside and no one knows who they are," he said.
  • (PolitickerNJ.com)
  • of the status quo are Super PACs–anyone behind a Super PAC would hate this rule change. Too bad. If people could easily access information about Puppy Love from the FCC's website, it makes the democratic process more transparent.
  • (In These Times)
  • (Host) And Welch says the activities of the Super Pacs arent good for the democratic process.
  • (Vermont Public Radio)

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