Anti-Abortion Super PAC To Spend Millions On Senate Races With Limited Disclosure

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WASHINGTON -- The national anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List announced Wednesday that it will spend more than $3 million through its super PAC on three Senate races in 2014 to help elect Republicans. Women Speak Out PAC, the group's super PAC, will target Senate seats occupied by vulnerable Democrats in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina, according to Breitbart. All three of these states voted for anti-abortion GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012.

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Susan B. Anthony List plans for the spending spree to focus on grass-roots organizing and on-the-ground voter contacts. The group plans to hire state directors in all three states. It has already signed up North Carolina Values Coalition Director Tami Fitzgerald to run the operation to support Thom Tillis, North Carolina's GOP Senate candidate who is speaker of the state House.

Despite a requirement that super PACs disclose their donors, Women Speak Out PAC reveals only a partial list of human donors. The largest donor to the group this cycle is Susan B. Anthony List. As a nonprofit, Susan B. Anthony List does not have to disclose its donors, leaving a dead end for voters who want to know who is trying to influence their decision in November.

The one revealed individual donor on Women Speak Out PAC's election report filed Tuesday was New Jersey-based investor Virginia James. A major conservative donor to groups such as the Club for Growth, James gave $200,000 to the super PAC in April. James has a history of supporting Susan B. Anthony List through her Hickory Foundation, which has given tens of thousands of dollars to the SBA List Legal Defense Fund in recent years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/susan-b-anthony-list-2014_n_5367862.html

[PumpkinAle]

1. The real Susan B. Anthony must be spinning in her grave knowing that

this group want to take away women's rights in the pretext of saving the fetus.

Perhaps one of the most misleadingly named groups is the Susan B. Anthony List. As everyone knows, Anthony led the fight for women to vote in the late 19th century and is remembered today as one of America’s most prominent activists for women’s civil rights. So it may come as a surprise that the Susan B. Anthony List is dedicated to getting pro-life candidates elected to office — not an agenda most modern-day feminists would get behind.

Deborah Hughes is president and CEO of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, N.Y. She explains why she thinks Anthony wouldn’t be happy about her name being used as a celebrity endorsement.

http://billmoyers.com/2012/09/21/was-susan-b-anthony-pro-life/

[okaawhatever]

2. +100 nt

[randys1]

3. As i have said, republicans hate women, especially repub men...

Has nothing to do with birth and everything to do with hating women having independence and the ability to tell a rightwing man to fuck off...

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Tami Fitzgerald is toxic.

And one big reason why marriage equality failed -- spectacularly -- in North Carolina.