--- title: Campaign Finance Reform Super PAC Announces Candidates description: And gives Congress an ultimatum before revealing its entire slate canonical: https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T14:19:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:23:36.393Z article:section: Politics og:title: Campaign Finance Reform Super PAC Announces Candidates og:description: And gives Congress an ultimatum before revealing its entire slate og:url: https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c91e8c150d1071c/69869d983bc99958be1a4b85/492356311.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1980 og:image:height: 1114 og:image:alt: The 18th Annual Webby Awards - Inside og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Campaign Finance Reform Super PAC Announces Candidates twitter:description: And gives Congress an ultimatum before revealing its entire slate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c91e8c150d1071c/69869d983bc99958be1a4b85/492356311.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 'Super PAC to End All Super PACs' Is Backing These Candidates > Sponsored content. 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Theo Wargo—2014 Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 29, 2014 2:19 PM UTC The Mayday Super PAC, a crowdfunded Political Action Committee designed to support pro-campaign finance reform politicians, announced two of the candidates it will support in the upcoming 2014 midterm elections. The [PAC](http://time.com/84556/lawrence-lessig-superpac/) is supporting State Senator Jim Reubens in the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary. It’s also supporting Democrat Staci Appel in the race to represent Iowa’s third congressional district. Reubens has made “fundamental reform to the way campaigns are funded” a central platform in his campaign, the group said. In that race, the group is also opposing former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, who it says opposes several key campaign finance reform measures and supports the lightning rod Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Appel, meanwhile, is also a dedicated campaign finance reformer. Mayday PAC has said it will support a total of five candidates in this year’s midterms. However, it has left three of the five candidates it will ultimately support unannounced as a “warning shot,” as the group calls it, to other politicians. “If a candidate for Congress wants to be inoculated from being on our target list,” the group said in a press release Monday, “there is an easy way to do so: get on the right side of reform.” Mayday PAC says candidates have until 5 p.m. eastern time on August 5 to meet the group’s requirements or else risk being named a target. Whether any candidates will switch their positions on campaign finance reform as a result of the groups’ ultimatum remains to be seen. The “Super PAC to end all Super PACs” was launched by the academic and campaign finance reform activist [Lawrence Lessig](http://time.com/84556/lawrence-lessig-superpac/). The group has [raised](http://time.com/2958516/mayday-pac/) $7.7 million to spend influencing key races this year, much of it Kickstarter-style through small donations. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/"},"headline":"The 'Super PAC to End All Super PACs' Is Backing These Candidates","datePublished":"2014-07-29T14:19:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:23:36.393Z","description":"And gives Congress an ultimatum before revealing its entire slate","url":"https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/","keywords":["Campaign Finance","reform","Midterm Elections"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c91e8c150d1071c/69869d983bc99958be1a4b85/492356311.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c91e8c150d1071c/69869d983bc99958be1a4b85/492356311.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The 18th Annual Webby Awards - Inside","caption":"The 18th Annual Webby Awards - Inside","creditText":"Theo Wargo—2014 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3051449/campaign-finance-mayday-pac/","name":"The 'Super PAC to End All Super PACs' Is Backing These Candidates"}}]}] ```