Updated below with comment from Bob Stannard
Demonstrating an apparent dearth of self-awareness, a Vermont-based “super-PAC” whose creation opened the door for super PACs to operate in Vermont released a statement Thursday decrying the influence of an out-of-state super PAC in Tuesday’s primary election — and using the situation to justify its own existence.
Got it? Didn’t think so. Let me take you back.
Six weeks ago, a liberal advocacy group called Vermont Priorities announced it was launching Vermont’s first home-grown super PAC, allowing it to raise and spend unlimited funds on state elections. Why? Because the folks behind it — Vermont Priorities chairman Bob Stannard (pictured) and the group’s consultant, KSE’s Todd Bailey — were greatly a-feared that big, bad out-of-state super PACs would get all up in Vermont’s otherwise pure elections.
By starting their own, way more awesome super PAC, Stannard and Bailey reasoned, they’d be ready to do battle with Karl Rove and the dreaded Koch brothers when those dudes inevitably came to town. Meanwhile, without all those pesky campaign finance restrictions, Vermont Priorities would able to raise and spend as much as they liked to elect their fellow liberals to office!
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Worth discussing over a Heady Topper.
yo dawg, we heard you didn’t like super pacs, so we… uh…
“Because they did so, a super PAC came to town”: post hoc, ergo propter hoc. It’s not always true — in fact, it’s hardly ever true.
Typical. Liberal. Hypocrites.
Stannard has never been known for either his logic or his integrity.