Nebraska's Dan Osborn starts hybrid PAC for working class candidates

[Omaha Steve]

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/19/nebraskas-dan-osborn-starts-hybrid-pac-for-working-class-candidates/

By: Aaron Sanderford - November 19, 2024 5:30 am


U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn meets with prospective voters at a Big Red Keno in west Lincoln on Oct. 20, 2024. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Dan Osborn, the former Nebraska nonpartisan U.S. Senate candidate, announced a political action committee Tuesday aimed at boosting working-class candidates for Congress like him.

He designed his Working Class Heroes Fund as a hybrid PAC that blends a super PAC that can take donations with fewer limits and a separate account for independent expenditures.

The arrangement often allows donors to give more upfront and let a PAC’s leaders steer the money to where it is needed when it is needed, following federal election law.

Some have criticized such groups as political pass-throughs that empower larger donors to mask their influence by filtering money through smaller groups to candidates and causes.

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[TheFarseer]

1. I like it in theory

Will be interesting to see if it comes to anything. Of course the best would be public financing