That's the name of Mr. Obama's 501(c)(4) Super PAC. This was his campaign organization but now it will be used to promote his second-term agenda. Wasn't it just a couple of months ago he was inveighing against the "dark money" flowing from this type of organization? But flip-flopping on money in politics is not new for Barack.
In 2008 he first vowed to use only public money for his campaign. Then, he decided not to accept public money and proceeded to raise $745,000,000 from non-public sources.
In 2010 he said relative to the Citizens United decision, “I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.” At the start of 2012 he founded Priorities USA Action, a super Pac providing "dark money".
In 2008 he took no corporate money for the inauguration and limited the amount that cold be contributed. This year he reversed himself and took as much money as corporations were willing to donate.
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