Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has given his blessing to a new big-money super PAC and wrote a fund-raising missive on the group’s behalf, the Center for Responsive Politics’ OpenSecrets Blog first reported Wednesday. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee, also issued a similar endorsement. Super PACs, a new breed of political group that may raise and spend unlimited sums of money to support or oppose political candidates, are prohibited from coordinating directly with candidates. But Reid and Kerry appear to fall within the law in stumping for Majority PAC, a super PAC operated in part by former Reid staffers. » Read More

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