Superpacs – hate ’em? Or LOVE ’em?

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You know what Superpacs are — those organizations spawned by the Supreme Court’s “corporations are people” ruling.

And we all hate ’em I know, but what about this:

A SuperPac called The Campaign for Primary Accountability, which claims to seek only one thing — to take away the advantage of incumbency.

In Tuesday’s Ohio primary they targeted two Congressional incumbents, Democrat Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who managed to hold on, and Republican Jean Schmidt, who did not.

“Four term incumbent Jean Schmidt was ousted by physician and military veteran Dr. Brad Wenstrup,” said a news report.

Brad Wenstrup, who’d raised a pathetic $100,000 before the superpac dumped another $53,000 into attack ads that said things like this:

“Congresswoman Jean Schmidt was named most corrupt by a Washington watchdog group.”

Nasty! But effective.

The PAC was founded by author and private investor Eric O’Keefe who led the term limits movement — and when that fizzled, decided the best way to get incumbents out was target them during the primaries, where a few votes can make a big difference. And his next target as he told Alabama Radio Station WAPI, is Alabama’s Spencer Bacchus, Republican chair of the financial services Committee, who’s being investigated for stock trades he made during the big fiscal kaboom of 2008. Typical of incumbents who face little opposition says O’Keefe:

“You’re content to drift into thinking you’re like royalty.”

Bacchus says O’Keefe hasn’t done his research, to which O’Keefe says, Read my $1.9 million.

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