Super-PAC Defenders Lose Debate – With Billionaires Behind the Curtains

13 September 2012
Julie Bykowicz

Super-political action committees sound patriotic, as defined by David Keating, president of the Center for Competitive Politics: It’s Americans getting together and pooling their money to talk to other Americans.

Trevor Potter, president of the Campaign Legal Center, takes a darker view that super PACs could hurt the country by corrupting the elected officials who benefit from their election spending.