As with much of Jon Huntsman's early campaign, Horizon PAC, the state political action committee that paid for his "campaign-in-waiting" seemed to involve a certain nod-and-wink: Donors were, in theory, giving to a PAC that would support candidates in the general image of Jon Huntsman; in reality, they had to know they were backing Huntsman himself.
But the PAC, of course, isn't legally allowed to say that, and so Emily Schultheis called most of the nearly 30 people who gave more than $1,000 (many much, much more) to the PAC to ask why they'd given. She got through to two of them (it's a shy group), both of whom said the PAC had raised money by the book:
via politico.com
