Three Duke University undergraduate students have started their own super-PAC, FEC filings show. And even the college youths are aware how absurd that sounds.
“We started [the super-PAC] with the intention of highlighting the absurdity of the process itself,” Stefani Jones, a 20-year-old sophomore and the group’s treasurer, told The Hill.
Super-PACs are formally titled independent expenditure-only committees, and came after a string of Supreme Court decisions beginning with Citizens United v FEC. These groups can raise and spend unlimited funds as long as they do not coordinate with a candidate or party.
The group started the super-PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Yesterday, for a class project. The class is titled “Congressional Gridlock” and focuses on what causes gridlock in Congress and our political system.
via thehill.com
Yes, a college student could file the paperwork to start a Super PAC pretty easily -- it is the ongoing administration and potential legal pitfalls of running a Super PAC that cause PACs to need help from attorneys.
Yes, a college student could file the paperwork to start a Super PAC pretty easily -- it is the ongoing administration and potential legal pitfalls of running a Super PAC that cause PACs to need help from attorneys.
