‘Ready for Hillary’ is spending money like crazy

BY JAIME FULLER June 13 at 6:30 AM


Ready for Hillary has spent at least $4.86 million since it formed in April 2013, according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics. And yes, the 2016 presidential election is still two years away.

The super PAC (or hybrid PAC -- as Politico reported, Ready for Hillary can now make donations to political candidates as well as collect unlimited contributions) spent more than $1.5 million between January 1, 2014, and March 31, 2014, according to their April 15 Federal Election Commission report. They raised about $1.7 million. Ready for Hillary spent more than $700,000 on salary and wages since starting, and has 26 staffers at this point.

None of the money they have spent went toward the independent expenditures that are usually a super PAC's bread and butter. Ready for Hillary is doing something a little different. They aren't trying to attack Clinton opponents. No one has declared their candidacy in either the Democratic or Republican primaries, so helping Clinton in the polls is simply a hypothetical exercise at this point. Because Ready for Hillary is a new invention as far as post-Citizens United election law goes, it's hard to assess how successful it is. There's nothing to compare it to.

Seth Bringman, Ready for Hillary's communications director, says their success will be measured by how many email addresses and how much data they can provide their candidate of choice if she decides to run.

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