Wolf PAC
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| Formation | October 19, 2011 |
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| Founder | Cenk Uygur |
| Type | Political action committee |
| Headquarters | Carthay, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Executive Director
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Ryan Clayton |
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Organizing Director
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Mike Monetta |
| Website | wolf-pac |
Wolf PAC is an American non-partisan political action committee formed in 2011 with the goal of "ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in our country", to include the restriction of large monetary donations to political candidates, parties, and groups. It began with an announcement at an Occupy Wall Street rally in New York City by The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur. On a state level Wolf PAC has received some bi-partisan support for its objectives.
Its strategy is to add a 28th amendment to the Constitution, thereby overturning multiple Supreme Court cases including Citizens United v. FEC and Buckley v. Valeo, which cumulatively have made it impossible to achieve Wolf PAC's campaign finance goals through simple legislation. Wolf PAC believes that Congress is too corrupt to pass such an amendment itself, and therefore advocates a convention of the States, which is a procedure outlined in Article V of the Constitution. As of 2017[update], five states had passed resolutions calling for such a convention, though not all states have used identical language in their convention call.
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that it is unconstitutional to restrict independent expenditures by corporations, unions, and other associations. This ruling was followed in March by the D.C. District Court of Appeals Speechnow.org v. FEC case, in which the court explicitly allowed the creation of Super PACs, which are allowed to spend unlimited money to influence elections, as long as they do not coordinate with any candidates.
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