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After this election we ought to talk about how ineffective 99% of PACs are with how they use your donated funds.
CLC federal reform program director Brendan Fischer told Newsweek the leadership PACs amounted to a "slush fund." https://www.newsweek.com/money-politics-slush-funds-congressional-pacs-1224504
Yet an examination of the PACs’ expenditures shows they spent a small percentage of the money they raised on work directly aimed at getting candidates elected -- paid ads, say, or contributions to other political committees.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-game-creating-pacs-and-then-spending-their-money
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-game-creating-pacs-and-then-spending-their-money
What happens to left over money at Super PACs? They get to find creative ways to spend / "keep" it.
There's little accountability.
They can tell you that your money is going in to an election, even if it is not, and often that's the case. https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/what-happens-to-surplus-super-pac-money/
There's little accountability.
They can tell you that your money is going in to an election, even if it is not, and often that's the case. https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/what-happens-to-surplus-super-pac-money/
It's time to end the inherent dishonesty of PACs by ending Citizens United.
We deserve a representative democracy that serves us, the American citizenry, rather than special interest groups and their dark pools of money. https://endcitizensunited.org
We deserve a representative democracy that serves us, the American citizenry, rather than special interest groups and their dark pools of money. https://endcitizensunited.org
