2012 elections

Labor Gets In The Big Money Game -- AFL-CIO To Launch Super PAC

Eric Kleefeld | August 22, 2011, 5:10PM

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

The AFL-CIO is gearing up to revamp organized labor's political operation, the Associated Press reports, by establishing a new "super PAC" that could raise unlimited amounts of money, just as business groups have also done.

Forming a so-called "super labor PAC" would allow the labor federation to raise money from sympathetic donors both inside and outside union membership and mobilize support beyond its traditional base, instead of ramping up political activities each election cycle.

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Michele Bachmann Gets Another Super PAC

Benjy Sarlin | August 17, 2011, 3:28PM

Michele Bachmann

It's getting hard to keep track of all the unlimited money groups forming to support various presidential candidates. Rick Perry already has multiple competing ones. Now Michele Bachmann is getting a second one.

The group, Citizens for a Working America, will be chaired by Ken Blackwell, who held office as Ohio's Secretary of State and ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor. Bachmann adviser Ed Brookover will also be on board, according to The Fix, who first broke the news.

CWA joins another recently formed pro-Bachmann group, Keep Conservatives United, that's already announced plans to take on Perry directly.

Bachmann is one of three candidates with Super PAC support. In addition to Perry's trio, Romney supporters have already raised over $12 million through Restore Our Future.