General Majority PAC, created last year by longtime Reid Senate chief of staff Susan McCue, has won legal challenges in New Jersey and Pennsylvania over the past year to enforce the Supreme Court ruling permitting unlimited corporate and union spending.
The successful lawsuits essentially have created the equivalent of super PACs at the state level and are part of a larger transformation of election law in the past few years as the dizzying changes at the federal level eventually creep down into state election law.
Municipal elections also have been affected by similar challenges: A federal district court last week finally struck down New York’s limit on contributions to independent groups after a lawsuit by a Republican group that wanted to spend in New York City’s 2013 mayoral election.
