super PAC

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English

Etymology

Coined by reporter Eliza Newlin Carney in 2010.

Noun

super PAC (plural super PACs)

  1. (US politics) A political action committee which may support a political candidate, and officially endorse one, but is legally bound to not coordinate with any candidate, and is not limited in financial contributions from donors or financial spending.
    Synonym: (official name) independent-expenditure only committee
    Coordinate terms: PAC, spooky PAC
    • 2015 April 13, “On the Trail of Super PAC Money”, in New York Times‎:
      Court decisions have established that super PACs are supposed to act independently of a candidate, with no coordination permitted. But the indictment focused on the suspicious timing of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to Mr. Menendez’s re-election campaign from a generous friend who allegedly sought government favors through the senator’s influence.
    • 2025 March 7, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Mr. Musk remains Mr. Trump’s biggest political financial supporter — just this week his super PAC aired $1 million worth of ads that said, “Thank you, President Trump” .

Usage notes

  • This is not a PAC as defined under United States Internal Revenue Code.
  • Super PACs came to the fore in the 2011 political campaigning season. Super PACs were created through court verdicts in the United States that challenged financial constraints on political advertising, as a right to free speech restriction, which were guaranteed under the US constitution's first amendment.

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References

  1. ^ Dave Levinthal (2012 January 10) “Genesis of a super name”, in Politico‎, archived from the original on 2016-04-07

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