Laurel Shugart

1 week ago | thecrimson.com | Jack Reardon |Laurel Shugart

In the months ahead of Cambridge’s municipal elections, postcards touting candidate slates find themselves in every resident’s mailbox. Thousands of yard signs pitch across the city as social media ads inundate residents’ feeds. All of these are funded by the money that the Independent Expenditure Political Action Committees — better known as “superPACs” — raise throughout the year.