Obama: "They Don't Want You to Know which Interests Are Paying for the Ads"
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February 7, 2012
Wrote Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, "In 2010, the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case opened the door to a new wave of so-called Super PACs -- non-candidate political committees that can receive and spend unlimited money from special interests. For the first time, these committees could accept money from corporations, not just wealthy individuals. The decision has accelerated a dangerous trend toward a political system increasingly dominated by big-money interests with disproportionate power to spend freely to influence our elections and our government."
Added Messina, "The campaign has decided to do what we can, consistent with the law, to support Priorities USA [Action superPAC] in its effort to counter the weight of the GOP Super PAC. . . . Super PACs haven't opened offices. They haven't hired organizers. They haven't registered voters. They haven't knocked on doors or made the kind of personal contact with voters that we know is the single most effective way to persuade people and turn them out on Election Day."
