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WSJ: The Super PAC Boomerang

January 3, 2012

Today’s Wall Street Journal points out “Campaign-finance scolds denounce the system they created”: In the common media wisdom, super PACs are a result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. This is said to have created a “loophole” that the super PACs have exploited to evade campaign-finance restrictions on the money that candidates can […]

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Star Tribune: Era of new PAC money unleashed in Iowa

January 1, 2012

In the Star Tribune, CU President David Bossie explains why an increase in political speech benefits all: But to David Bossie, president of Citizens United, what voters are seeing is unbridled democracy in action. “Throughout this presidential nominating contest we’ve seen enthusiastic supporters of the various candidates form Super PACs in support of their chosen […]