Atlanta Unfiltered

Unraveling campaign finance and lobbyist spending reports can be difficult if you don’t know the lingo. Trade associations frequently create political action committees (PACs) with names that mask, intentionally or not, the special interests behind them. Others are known only by obscure acronyms; some use the same acronym. So, as we continue to shine a light on special interests’ influence in Georgia, we’ve compiled this quick guide to who’s who among the PACs

North Carolina’s Roy Cooper joined Georgia’s Thurbert Baker today as two of the few attorneys general who’ve chosen not to sue the feds over Obamacare. Cooper said Congress probably acted within its authority in enacting health care legislation. He noted several benefits of the new law and said the courts are the wrong place to decide health care policy.