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Vote Climate U.S. PAC is an American super PAC founded in 2013 and directed by American political activist Karyn Strickler. Its mission is "to elect candidates to get off fossil fuels, transition to clean, renewable energy and put a price on carbon, in order to slow global warming and related weather extremes."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Vote Climate U.S. PAC )〕 Strickler has named the implementation of a carbon tax as a principal goal. As a super PAC (a type of political action committee), the organization cannot contribute to candidates but can make independent expenditures on their behalf. ==History== The PAC began operations with the 2014 midterm elections. It identified three top-priority races for the U.S. Senate and three for the U.S. House. It stated its selection criteria: Priority races are in hotly contested, swing districts where: The PAC was successful in all three Senate races and in two of the three House races. Its candidates, all Democrats, were: U.S. Senate * Gary Peters (Michigan) (won) * Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire) (won) * Al Franken (Minnesota) (won) U.S. House * Pete Aguilar (CA 31) (won) * Scott Peters (CA 52) (won) * Andrew Romanoff (CO 6) (lost) Vote Climate U.S. PAC began with production of the (Holy BLEEP Mabel series ), an ad campaign which follows the quirky couple Mabel and Manny, as they experience weather extremes related to climate change and will air in the 2016 U.S. elections. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vote Climate U.S. PAC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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