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Shock charge: FEC chair says Super PACs only help white men

By Paul Bedard

Published July 30, 2015 6:57pm ET

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Shock charge: FEC chair says Super PACs only help white men — "Women tend not to be in the higher echelons of the economy. There are very few women CEOs in the United States, and women have much less access to wealthy donors." (AP File Photo) | Rich Pedroncelli

In a shocking slam on political Super PACs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission this week charged that “over 90 percent” spend their millions raised by white men helping only white men.

Providing no evidence, and ignoring super PAC support for the dozens of minorities in Congress, Hillary Clinton and President Obama, Ann M. Ravel told a New York conference that the big money groups also choke out candidates they don’t fund.

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