{"id":1488,"date":"2012-03-22T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2012-03-22T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T18:57:27","slug":"new-minority-focused-pac-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/new-minority-focused-pac-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"New Minority-Focused PAC Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAC Plus, a new minority-focused super PAC, launched today with one of Washington, D.C.\u2019s most powerful Democrats in its corner.<\/p>\n<p>John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and a former White House chief of staff, will advise the group. PAC Plus is an outgrowth of PowerPAC, a 527 organization that spent $10 million in 2007 to help President Barack Obama secure the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p>PAC Plus expects to spend another $10 million this year to mobilize blacks and Hispanics in support of Democrats in six states with large minority populations \u2014 Texas, New Mexico, California, Georgia, Arizona and Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>By targeting Texas and Georgia \u2014 two states that will almost certainly vote Republican this year \u2014 the group hopes to cultivate future candidates and voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe neglect places that could become progressive over time with the right kind of work,\u201d Podesta said in an interview with Roll Call. \u201cThat\u2019s a stretch at the presidential level but &#8230; if you want to build for the long term, you\u2019ve got to get started today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/new_minority_focused_pac_launches-213283-1.html\">New Minority-Focused PAC Launches : Roll Call Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAC Plus, a new minority-focused super PAC, launched today with one of Washington, D.C.\u2019s most powerful Democrats in its corner. John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and a former White House chief of staff, will advise the group. PAC Plus is an outgrowth of PowerPAC, a 527 organization that spent $10&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[976,411,975,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}