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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I just looked up the National Democratic Redistricting PAC and it spent $1.5M on salary/fundraising versus $2.3M on races? Am I reading this right?https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00630707/ …
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Also that seems not terrible? I don't really have a sense for what's "good" here
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America Votes Action Fund
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They made $5.3 million in Q3, spent $945,611, and of that spending, it looks like $132,961 went to candidates. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00492520/1451699/ …
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well dang, this does not bode well for my "Jeff Atwood needs money" PAC.
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Their entire activity seems to be disbursements to other entities, who you can find listed here: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00728360/1453174/sb/ALL …
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I share so much of your frustration but I also sorta think we’re different at Better Prosecutors PAC. We’re dealing with tiny sums compared to most of the others. There’s zero accountability out here.
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Even the honest PACs have to deal with the absolutely unscrupulous vendors
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