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John selected it, and I don’t know where he got it, I never really asked. When I worked for Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, we called [his PAC] BACKPAC, for Building America’s Conscience of Kids. Senator Kerrey initially wanted to all it SIXPAC, but we decided against that and laughed, saying, ‘No, it would probably be inappropriate.’ You try to come up with something catchy. Where John came up with New American Optimists, I don’t know. John’s a very optimistic...
With campaign costs as astronomical as they are, candidates are beholden to PACs for financing, and the PACs have happily bartered their funds for the chance to manipulate legislation. When beer distributors wanted monopoly territories for their distributors, their PAC--appropriately named SIXPAC--gave a total of $35,000 to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monopolies. Not surprisingly, the monopoly territories won approval...
...placing their antes into the political pot, up from 2,551 in 1980 and 113 in 1972. The estimated total of funds they will dispense for campaigns this year: a staggering $240 million. There is Back Pac, PeacePac and Cigar-Pac. Beer distributors have a committee named-what else?-SixPAC. Whataburger Inc. has one called Whata-Pac. The Concerned Rumanians for a Stronger America has a PAC, as does the Hawaiian Golfers for Good Government. And so do most major corporations and unions...