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After months of touting their value and importance to the election process, the independent expenditure only committees, known as super PACs, are suddenly trying distance themselves from the 2012 presidential campaigning.
In a statement released Thursday, the groups expressed dismay for their role putting forward a “barely adequate” cast of candidates for the land’s highest office and vowed to do better in 2016.
“This is a complete and utter embarrassment - to us, to the process, and to those who expect more from the hard-earned tens of millions of dollars they have put into this fiasco,”
After months of touting their value and importance to the election process, the independent expenditure only committees, known as super PACs, are suddenly trying distance themselves from the 2012 presidential campaigning.
In a statement released Thursday, the groups expressed dismay for their role putting forward a “barely adequate” cast of candidates for the land’s highest office and vowed to do better in 2016.
“This is a complete and utter embarrassment - to us, to the process, and to those who expect more from the hard-earned tens of millions of dollars they have put into this fiasco,”
: smack:
It'd be nice if super pac's/regular pac's/ lobbyists would be outright banned from being anywhere near washington.
In it, the super PACs highlight some of the qualifications they will be looking for in a future presidential candidate, including the ability to not be secretly recorded saying something you will regret, the stamina to talk over a debate moderator for at least 90 minutes, and the good sense not to allow an actor to speak at your party’s convention.
After months of touting their value and importance to the election process, the independent expenditure only committees, known as super PACs, are suddenly trying distance themselves from the 2012 presidential campaigning.
In a statement released Thursday, the groups expressed dismay for their role putting forward a “barely adequate” cast of candidates for the land’s highest office and vowed to do better in 2016.
“This is a complete and utter embarrassment - to us, to the process, and to those who expect more from the hard-earned tens of millions of dollars they have put into this fiasco,”
: smack:
Not even the big money special interest likes the loony folks in control of the Republican Party right now.
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