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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/john-ramsey-liberty-for-all-super-pac


Stephen F. Austin senior and Liberty for All founder John Ramsey John Ramsey/Facebook

Update 5:45 PM PST, May 22, 2012: Thomas Massie, the candidate supported by John Ramsey's super-PAC, has won the GOP nomination in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District.]

John Ramsey is not the only college student with his own super-PAC. Since last summer, dozens of projects have sprung up on campuses across the country, most of them with names—Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Yesterday; Penn Staters for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow—that pay homage to their inspiration, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.

But Ramsey, a 21-year-old economics major at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, is almost certainly the only college student in the country to build his own super-PAC from scratch, seed it with $890,000 he inherited from his grandfather, and use it to tip the scales of an otherwise anonymous Republican primary 900 miles away from his home.

Since last Thursday, Ramsey's outfit, Liberty for All, has been running television ads in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District in support of Thomas Massie, a Ron Paul-endorsed candidate who's running to fill the seat of retiring GOP Rep. Geoff Davis. With one week to go until the election, Massie leads in the polls and, in a deep-red district, stands a better-than-average chance at winning in November, too. But Ramsey isn't leaving anything to chance. His PAC has poured $542,600—almost all of it from his own pocket—into campaign ads. And unlike most outside groups, Liberty for All is putting hundreds of thousands of dollars into a ground game, too—splurging on direct mail and organizing get-out-the-vote and phone-banking operations.

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1. He had way too much money and it's good to see

that he's burned through lots of it. What a nightmare with Citizen's United.