Fair Share Action is a left-leaning American super

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that seeks to elect Democratic candidates to political office. Fair Share Action is an unaffiliated Super PAC. It shares a name with the 501(c)(4) Fair Share. Fair Share Action was launched in

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in August 2012. The super PAC is heavily funded by

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, a computer software entrepreneur and

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activist. Fair Share Action also received $550,000 in seed funding from Environment America. Billionaire

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, the

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, and

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have also funded Fair Share Action. The group's initial activities included

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efforts in Colorado,

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, and

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for President

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's 2012 re-election campaign. In 2014, Fair Share Action reported spending $4,363,917 on federal electoral efforts, including more than $1.5 million on efforts to re-elect former Democratic U.S. Senator

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, who was ultimately defeated. In the July 15, 2016 Report of Disbursements, Fair Share Action was named as a donor to Correct the Record, a political action group exposing political opponents of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

References

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