{{Short description|Political action committee}} '''Our Principles PAC''' was a super PAC established in January 2016 as part of the Never Trump movement. Its goal was to oppose Donald Trump's campaign for president. Our Principles PAC was led by Katie Packer, who was deputy campaign manager of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/our-principles-pac/ | title=Our Principles PAC | work=FactCheck.org|publisher=Annenberg Public Policy Center|date=March 8, 2016 | accessdate=March 15, 2016 | author=McCormack, Raymond}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/03/08/469692183/our-principles-superpac-spreads-anti-donald-trump-message|title='Our Principles' SuperPAC Spreads Anti-Donald Trump Message|work=All Things Considered|publisher=NPR|access-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref> The month of the Iowa caucuses, the group sent out mailers to voters in the state, attacking Trump.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/top-former-romney-aide-launches-anti-trump-super-pac-218071 | title=Top former Romney aide launches anti-Trump super PAC | work=Politico | date=January 21, 2016 | access-date=March 15, 2016 | author=Isenstadt, Alex}}</ref> In March, it released a video attacking Trump, featuring women reading some of his sexist statements about women. <ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/14/politics/donald-trump-ad-women/index.html | title=Anti-Trump ad shows women reading Trump comments | publisher=CNN | date=March 14, 2016 | accessdate=March 15, 2016 | author=Bash, Dana}}</ref>
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, New York-based hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, whose corporation Elliott Management Corporation (EMC) specializes in distressed debt acquisitions,<ref name="corporate_power_2014">{{cite book |title=Corporate Power, Oligopolies, and the Crisis of the State |first=Luis |last=Suarez-Villa|publisher=SUNY Press |year=2014|pages=378 |isbn=978-1438454856}}</ref>{{rp|301}} was one of the group's donors. Singer supported Marco Rubio.<ref name="newyorker_2016">{{cite web | url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-problem-with-the-never-trump-movement | title=The Problem with the "Never Trump" Movement | magazine=The New Yorker | date=March 3, 2016 | accessdate=March 25, 2016 | author=Cassidy, John}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923041554/http://www.ourprinciplespac.com/ |date=September 23, 2016 |title=Our Principles PAC}}
{{Never Trump movement}} Category:United States political action committees Category:Never Trump movement Category:Paul Singer (businessman)