Something else to talk about while waiting for 3pm. What about EndCitizensUnited.org???

[LAS14]

For some months now I have been getting e-mails from EndCitizensUnited.org that purported to be from candidates I was supporting. Twice I actually donated. I'm not saying the money doesn't go to a good cause, but I'm not sure it goes directly to my candidate. I decided to Google, while waiting for Susan Collins, and found this. Do you have knowledge of, opinions about this organization?

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Greg Berlin said he and the other two founders, Jake Lipsett and Charles Starnes, felt that the big political cash unleashed by Citizens United had made it impossible to pass the Democratic Party agenda. So they created a PAC to elect Democrats who could change that.

But many in Washington’s relatively small world of campaign finance reform were highly suspicious of the new player and its tactics. Marge Baker, executive director of People for the American Way, said the PAC’s hard-sell campaign was “polluting the commons.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/end-citizens-united-pac-campaign-finance-reform_us_570e5308e4b0ffa5937da409

[dweller]

1. I brought up this earlier

not a response, but may interest you

http://www.pbs.org/pov/darkmoney/

it's pretty disturbing

[LAS14]

2. Oh, wow. Thanks. Sorry I missed it, but will try to find re-runs. nt