O’Malley Expresses Distaste for Super PACs After One Backing Him Attacks Sanders
Via The Washington Post
Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley said that he would prefer there were no super PACs when asked in a radio interview Tuesday about one backing him that recently produced Web ads attacking rival Bernie Sanders.
“Once you’re a candidate, you’re in a bit of a straight jacket,” O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, said during an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio’s Morning Edition. “I would hope that we would keep this debate a debate about the issues, and I would prefer, not that I’m able to tell a super PAC what to do, I would prefer that we didn’t have any super PACs, frankly.”
The ads in question, produced by the group Generation Forward, attacked Sanders, a Vermont senator, for his mixed record on gun control, asserting that he is “no progressive” on that issue. The ads were targeted to Web viewers in Iowa, the nation’s first presidential caucus state.
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