“PAC Money Sways New Jersey Elections”

WSJ:

New Jersey Democrats will start 2016 with the largest majority in the state Assembly in 36 years, after they exceeded expectations in local elections Tuesday, picking up three seats and potentially a fourth.

But one of the biggest winners wasn’t on the ballot: General Majority PAC. The super PAC and other independent-expenditure groups supporting Democratic Assembly candidates in New Jersey helped tip the balance in at least two districts by pouring millions of dollars into attack ads.

“We are very encouraged by the results,” said Edward Richardson, executive director of the New Jersey Education Association, a teachers union.

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