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Thu May 18, 2017, 06:36 PM May 2017

Hmmm.....Pence starts his own PAC

Pence Starts PAC to Fund Travel, Buy Emails as Trump Woes Grow

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14141365/1/pence-starts-pac-to-fund-travel-buy-emails-as-trump-woes-grow.html

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is starting an unprecedented and awkwardly-timed political action committee.

Pence filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission on Tuesday for the launch of Great America Committee, a federal leadership political action committee he will head. The group will fund Pence's travels for non-official business and support other candidates and elected officials. While organizers say the PAC's launch has been months in the making, no previous vice presidents have taken the same course of action, and it comes a day after a federal special prosecutor was named to probe President Donald Trump and his administration for possible collusion with a foreign power during last year's election campaign.

&quot Pence) wants to be able to support people who are supporting the president," said Nick Ayers, a long-time Pence aide who will head the group alongside Pence fundraiser Marty Obst. "Whether it's members of Congress on Capitol Hill who have been champions of passing the president's agenda or candidates who are running on his platform, this entity can directly support those candidates."

Beyond supporting candidates and funding Pence's non-official travel, the PAC will also transfer email addresses and donor information currently trapped in his gubernatorial accounts to a federal one. Election laws bar Pence from using the assets he amassed as governor of Indiana. Great America Committee will be able to buy those assets from his state organizations and share or rent that information to other organizations.

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wow, his own go fund me page n/t CANADIANBEAVER69 May 2017 #1
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