Meet the Man Who Invented the Super PAC
Via Time
The mastermind behind the super PAC has no regrets. “My only regret is the backlash,” David Keating says with a wry smile.
Keating is one of the most influential political activists you’ve never heard of. He was the architect of a federal lawsuit that ended in a landmark 2010 court ruling that reshaped the way elections are run. The case,SpeechNow.org vs. FEC, scrapped annual limits on individual contributions to campaign advocacy groups, ushering in the era of super PACs—political-action committees that can raise unlimited sums as long as they don’t coordinate directly with parties or candidates.
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