California Rep. Woolsey Forms Leadership PAC

By Greg Giroux | October 16, 2009 1:37 PM | | Comments (0)

California Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey, one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress, has formed a leadership PAC that she can use to contribute to campaigns.

People PAC was organized Oct. 13 with the Federal Election Commission.

Leadership PACs have proliferated in recent years, in part because members of Congress can give more to candidates from those organizations than they can from their personal campaign committees.

Woolsey, a supporter of a single-payer health care system, has always won overwhelmingly in California's 6th District, which takes in parts of left-leaning Marin and Sonoma counties north of San Francisco. Barack Obama took 76 percent of the district vote in the 2008 election, and Woolsey won a ninth term with 72 percent.

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