The Week contest: Silly super PACs

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

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Last week's question: To mock campaign-finance laws, some folks have registered new political action committees with satirical names such as Talkin' Smack PAC, Bears for a Bearable Tomorrow, and Joe Six PAC. We asked you what the name of your super PAC would be.

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RESULTS:

THE WINNER: Foreclosed and Living in a Cardboard Shack PAC

Cris, Simon, Mel, Matt & Dude Hamilton Ivers, Holualoa, HI

SECOND PLACE: Wealthy Brat PAC

Michael Akkerman, New York, NY

THIRD PLACE: I Didn't Know There Was a PAC for That! PAC

Lee Wohlers, Hardwick, VT

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Citizens Divided on Citizens United

Angela James, Westminster, MD

Obama PACK

Christopher C. Jaeckel, Earleville, MD

Gainful Employment Lack PAC

John Walsh, Mercer Island, WA

Outta Whack, Been Smokin' Crack, Send More Troops to Iraq PAC

George J. Bryjak, Bloomingdale, NY

PAC'in Heat (Gun Lobby)

Ian Kosky, Valparaiso, IN

AFLAC PAC (Insurance Lobby)

Steve Robinson, The Villages, FL

Cigarette PAC (Tobacco Lobby)

Paul Moertl, Wauwatosa, WI

Ms. PAC-man (Women's Lobby)

Brian De Lorenzo, Dorchester Center, MA

Buyin' Elections Like It's Our Job

Meredith Rieger, West Chester, PA

Get Your Money Back PAC

Denis Lohman, Devon, PA

Let's Control the Election PAC

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, CO

Now You Are Mine! PAC

M.V. Larinoff, Leesburg, FL

Where's My Jet PAC

Mark McGann, Austin, TX

Americans for No PACs PAC

Kurt von Kampen, Seward, NE

No Political Ads Until October PAC

H.B. Stultz Jr., East Stroudsburg, PA

Republicans Against Taxes (RAT) PAC

Doug Rued, Placerville, CA

Cameron J. Carroll for President 2052 PAC (Cameron is my grandson and it's never too early to get your name in front of the press.)

Dorothy M. Wagner, Dover, NH