Monday, March 12, 2018

The Liberal Super PAC BlackPAC is Bankrolled by Whites. Does It Matter?

 
by Lateshia Beachum

The full version of this story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.

Late last year, BlackPAC — then a little-known, liberal super PAC led by a longtime political organizer — swept into Alabama's special U.S. Senate race and began spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to great effect.

The New York-based BlackPAC knocked on more than 520,000 doors, sent mail to 271,000 homes and made 72,000 phone calls to Alabamians. The effort helped organize black volunteers en masse, who in turn urged prospective voters to the polls.

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Source: NBC News

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