Tag Archives: Our Destiny PAC

PAC Attack! Handy Clip ‘n’ Save Guide

You can’t spit without hitting a Super PAC in the GOP presidential primary, as this helpful chart from Time graphically illustrates (through 1/12/12). Here’s a different way of configuring the list, with links to the groups and related news stories: … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Extreme New Hampshire Edition)

Once around the New Hampshire airwaves, James, and don’t spare the horses. • Mitt Romney’s American Optimism   This is Mitt as good cop, doing the “I See An America” thing. Meanwhile, Romney’s bad cop, the Restore Our Future Super … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman’s Destiny Edition)

Headline on this week’s Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column: Gingrich Is Making Romney Better Next week’s headline: Huntsman Is Making Romney Battered That will largely be thanks to Our Destiny, a Super PAC backing GOP presidential afterthought Jon Huntsman … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Ad Spending Tally Edition)

MSNBC’s First Read has helpfully provided an update on TV advertising expenditures so far in the 2012 presidential election (although it’s awfully secretive about the source of its numbers): Among the GOP presidential candidates: — Perry $2.8 million (including the campaign’s national … Continue reading

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Rick Perry & Thrust (PAC Man Edition)

While most restrictions on independent advocacy groups have been stripped away by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, one has remained: that PACs, Super PACs, 501(c)4 organizations and etc. (primer here) cannot coordinate their advertising with a candidate’s ad … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman Sort-Of-Super PAC Edition)

GOP nevergonnabe Jon Huntsman, who has tracked resolutely at up to 2% in the presidential primary polls, actually has a non-canine friend: Our Destiny PAC, which has just launched this ad in New Hampshire (via NH Journal/Politico):   Yikes. Maybe they … Continue reading

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