Sad news for politically-active Hall and Oates fans: The Hall and Oates Fans for America Super PAC is no more, Rolling Stone's Andy Greene writes.
As Stephen Colbert showed earlier this year, just about any joker can make a Super PAC these days, and as if to prove that, a couple of political junkie waiters in Atlanta have launched The Hall and Oates Fans for America Super PAC (PDF) a group dedicated to criticizing Mitt Romney and some sweet, sweet harmonizing.
Laura Ricketts, daughter of TD Ameritrade's Joe Ricketts, the man made briefly famous for his dashed "metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln" anti-Obama ad, is launching a Super PAC of her own called LPAC, a lesbian Super PAC that already has supporters in Jane Lynch and Billie Jean King.
If Sheldon Adelson's name hasn't been on your news radar in a while, it's helpful to remember him as the guy who sunk millions of dollars into Newt Gingrich's presidential dreams. And today, as CBS's Laura Strickler notes, Romney is going to meet him.
Apparently, being a black, well-groomed version of one of America's most beloved presidents is a bad thing. And along with a lot of chickens and Reverend Jeremiah Wright--it's the skeleton of a conservative Super PAC's $10 million attack plan.
Despite earlier criticism of both super PACs and the president, the political firebrand wrote Priorities USA Action, Obama's super PAC, a $1 million check onstage last night in San Jose, CA.
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