Liberals embrace super PACs they once shunned | TheHill

America’s Promise PAC, he wrote, could help Biden “make up that ground.”“[D]espite best intentions, the Biden campaign and the [Democratic National Committee] are far behind on digital organizing, Latino outreach and progressive coalition building – all critical to reaching and winning over Sanders supporters,” Weaver wrote.Chuck Rocha, a former senior adviser to Sanders who is involved in America’s Promise PAC and is spearheading the creation of another group, Nuestro PAC, said that super PACs are simply a means to an end: helping Democrats and progressives win up and down the ballot.Unlike traditional political action committees and political nonprofits, super PACs can act as a “partisan hammer,” Rocha said, a role that traditional campaigns and PACs can’t necessarily fill.“I am anti all this money in politics and if we can operate without super PACs, I would vote for that everyday,” Rocha told The Hill. And after America’s Promise launched in late April, the grassroots collective The People for Bernie Sanders advised its followers: “Don’t give them a dime.”“One of the basics of the Bernie campaigns was a refusal to go there in terms of anything like a super PAC,” Norman Solomon, a longtime activist and the co-founder of the progressive online initiative RootsAction.org.“I think that’s in harmony with the politics – that if you’re opposed to huge money running the political show then you don’t take huge money in super PACs.”Solomon is among a group of advisers to the newly-formed Once Again PAC, a traditional political action committee focused on helping Sanders win delegates in upcoming Democratic presidential primaries in order to exert  influence over the party’s platform and rules at its national convention this summer.Also involved in that effort is Nina Turner, a former co-chair of Sanders’s presidential campaign, and Winnie Wong, a former adviser to Sanders.While Solomon said that most activists on the left “share Bernie’s detest for super PACs in general,” he also emphasized that progressive super PACs are “a relatively small part of the terrain,” especially given the massive outside groups funded by ultra-wealthy donors that often back Republicans or more centrist Democrats.“It’s David vs.