Norm Coleman’s group tests new Citizens United ruling with ad campaign

The American Action Network is planning on taking advantage of Citizens United by spending $25 million in upcoming political races.

CEO of the Republican “action tank,”  former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman told National Journal the group plans to use the money to advertise in 25 House races and 8 to 10 Senate races.

“We’ll use the tools available to us in the post-Citizens United [world],” he told National Journal.

According to TPMmuckracker, AAN’s executive director, Rob Collins, described the group as “rimparily a policy organization,” claiming no decisions had been made on which races it would attempt to influence.

“Collins declined to provide information on the group’s funding, saying that, like groups across the political spectrum, it doesn’t reveal its donors,” wrote TPMmuckraker.  “That raises the possibility that AAN could conceivably function, like the Chamber of Commerce may do, as a way for corporations to direct unlimited funds to support or oppose specific candidates, without the money being tied to them.”