# Our Principles PAC

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'''Our Principles PAC''' was a [super PAC](/source/super_PAC) established in January 2016 as part of the [Never Trump movement](/source/Stop_Trump_movement). Its goal was to oppose [Donald Trump](/source/Donald_Trump)'s [campaign for president](/source/Donald_Trump_presidential_campaign%2C_2016).  Our Principles PAC was led by [Katie Packer](/source/Katie_Packer), who was deputy campaign manager of [Mitt Romney](/source/Mitt_Romney)'s [2012 campaign](/source/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campaign%2C_2012).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/our-principles-pac/ | title=Our Principles PAC | work=[FactCheck.org](/source/FactCheck.org)|publisher=[Annenberg Public Policy Center](/source/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](/source/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](/source/2016_United_States_presidential_election), New York-based [hedge fund](/source/hedge_fund) billionaire [Paul Singer](/source/Paul_Singer_(businessman)), whose corporation [Elliott Management Corporation](/source/Elliott_Management_Corporation) (EMC) specializes in [distressed debt](/source/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](/source/SUNY_Press) |year=2014|pages=378  |isbn=978-1438454856}}</ref>{{rp|301}} was one of the group's donors.  Singer supported [Marco Rubio](/source/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>

==References==
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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}}

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