A nice illustration of how PACs are a legal form of grift comes this month from Brianna Wu's RebellionPAC, a "Clean PAC fighting for progressive, working class values across the country." Like everyone else, RebellionPAC cleaned up in Q3, bringing in over $150K in donations
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In that period, the PAC spent $94,140, but only $11,200 of this went to candidates. The rest was spent on media production, bank and legal fees ($9,165), email lists ($5,125), entertainment ($1,111) and $17,806 that Wu paid herself out of PAC funds for "strategic consulting"
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Scratch any progressive PAC and this is the pattern you'll find. They are limited by law in what they can give to candidates, but limited only by a sense of decorum and shame in what they can pay themselves. Please give directly to campaigns! (source: https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/093/202010159295161093/202010159295161093.pdf …)
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In my world about 2% of people can even find their physical checkbook
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