By Joshua Miller
Another day, another Massachusetts political action committee that can raise unlimited amounts of money — from people, labor unions, and corporations — and spend it to influence elections.
A local attorney has filed paperwork to organize a new super PAC focused on boosting independent candidates.
The group is aimed at promoting “the election of independent candidates to public offices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts” and providing “the voters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with alternatives to the candidates running for election to public office as Democrats or Republicans,” according to the Tuesday filing with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
The filing lists Paul W. Johnson, an attorney who gives an office address in Boston and a residential address in Swampscott, as the chairman and treasurer of the new super PAC, Independent Candidates Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee.
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