People United Means Action
organization
"People United Means Action" (PUMA) was a political action committee in the United States that opposed the Democratic Party leadership and the nomination of Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president in the 2008 presidential election. PUMA began as an effort by supporters of Obama's primary rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who believed that Clinton should have been the Democratic nominee. According to PUMA, "We [were] protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters." The organization was founded and led by Darragh Murphy.
On May 11, 2011, the PUMA PAC was stripped of its status as a recognized political action committee for failure to meet reporting requirements.
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Origin
The PUMA PAC registered as a non-affiliated political action committee (PAC) with the Federal Election Commission and organized as a 527 Organization with the Internal Revenue Service in June 2008. Darragh Murphy filed the paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to start the organization on June 3, the day before Obama became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee. PUMA's founders state that the group originated out of online comments of a group of Clinton supporters on a pro-Clinton blog, The Confluence, which was created by New Jersey biochemist and former John Edwards supporter "Riverdaughter," who had been recently banned from a pro-Obama liberal blog. The website ClintonsForMcCain.com was registered by the Republican National Committee on May 15, 2008, well in advance of Clinton's concession speech.
PUMA was also part of a coalition of online activists with similar goals, the JustSayNoDeal coalition. The PUMA acronym as originally coined stood for "Party Unity My Ass", but the PAC was registered as "People United Means Action," a backronym.
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