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Tag: Super PACs

SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs raises $1 million in its first two weeks

May 23, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Campaigns, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

If you can’t join them, beat them. That’s the strategy behind a new political SuperPAC launched in May 2014 by Harvard economics professor Lawrence

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Football bounties and Super PACs: Excess is the common denominator

April 2, 2012 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Corporations, Courts, Politics, Sports, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

The answer to the question of what NFL bounties and Super PACs have in common, is one word, “excess.” If we were to expound

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Crowdsourcing helps solve the Super PAC funding puzzle

February 10, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Corporations, Courts, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Under Citizens United, Super PAC donors’ identities are shrouded in secrecy, but The Caucus, a New York Times blog, has begun a savvy effort

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