Adam Smith, of Every Voice, alerted me via email that the term super PAC made it onto Jeopardy! today. The whole clue was: “Unveiled in 2014, the Freedom Partners Action Fund isn’t a regular PAC but this kind that can give without limits.” The correct answer: “What is a super PAC.”<\/p>\n
In point of fact, the correct clue would have referenced a PAC “that can spend” <\/em>without limits. But no matter. There were a number of other political money clues on the show, including: “PACs must register with the FEC, short for this.” The answer, of course: “Federal Election Commission.” Watch the whole episode here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Smith, of Every Voice, alerted me via email that the term super PAC made it onto Jeopardy! today. The whole clue was: “Unveiled in 2014, the Freedom Partners Action Fund isn’t a regular PAC but this kind that can give without limits.” The correct answer: “What is a super PAC.” In point of fact,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-mentions","category-super-pacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizanewlincarney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}