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Stephen Colbert spawns army of crazy super PACs

Posted on May 21st, 2012 at 18:11 by John Sinteur in category: Indecision 2012 -- Write a comment

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In late March, Stephen Colbert expanded his super PAC experiment, admonishing his late-night viewers to start organizations of their own on college campuses across America.They listened, and now the Federal Election Commission’s roster of approved super PACs is filled with groups registered to addresses in college towns.

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Jensen created Cats For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and already has a website and Twitter account set up. At last count, the website featured no fewer than 28 cat photos.

Jensen has a few unique ideas that he hopes will attract donors. One is to put a donor’s name on a baseball card with a cat-related pun.

“The top donors would be fat cats,” Jensen said. “And if you weren’t donating a lot of money, you would be a skinny cat. I’d have all these kinds of cats.”

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