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American Academy of Family Physicians PAC (FamMedPAC) – Washington, D.C. American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons PAC (The Orthopaedic PAC) – Washington, D.C. American College of Pathology PAC (Path-PAC) – Milwaukee, WI; American College of Radiology PAC (RadPAC) – Reston, VA; American Dental Association PAC (ADPAC) – Washington, D.C.
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According to data from OpenSecrets, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, [33] while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active super PACs" was donated by publicly traded corporations.
The 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States began on February 22, 2018, after local activists compelled the West Virginia state leadership of the West Virginia branches of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association into holding a strike vote.
In November 2021, he donated $5 million to the School Freedom Fund, a PAC that runs ads for Republican candidates running in the 2022 election cycle nationwide. [33] From 2010 to 2022, Yass contributed $41.7 million to Students First political action committee ; Yass co-founded the PAC, which supports the school choice movement.
According to OpenSecrets, in 2018 the Sixteen Thirty Fund had "thirteen multi-million dollar secret donors." [6] One donor gave $51.7 million to the group in 2018, while another donor gave $26.7 million and a third gave $10 million. The group is not required by law to reveal its donors and it has not disclosed who its funders are.