Hansen: 2 Millard West grads launch super PAC in effort to show how dumb super PACs really are

[Omaha Steve]

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Joe Gruber, left, and Richard Diurba, both 18, in the headquarters — Joe’s bedroom — of their super PAC, Extempers for Prosperity.

POSTED: TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2014 1:00 AM
By Matthew Hansen / World-Herald staff writer

Starting a super PAC can really mess with your homework schedule.

Consider the day that the founder of Nebraska’s newest political action committee got a message from the Nebraska Department of Labor while he sat in his Millard West High School homeroom. You need to buy workers’ compensation insurance, the message said.

Joe Gruber, 18, sighed, picked up his cellphone and dialed the state. No, his newly founded political action committee, named Extempers for Prosperity, doesn’t have any employees. No, he does not plan to hire any employees. Can I go back to my homework now?
“It worked out so we don’t have to pay workers’ comp, which is nice,” Gruber told me.

Gruber is doing quite a few things this summer, after graduating from Millard West. He’s getting up before dawn and trudging through wet corn fields while detasseling. He’s working evening shifts as a checker at Hy-Vee. Oh, and he’s the co-founder, executive director and treasurer of Nebraska’s newest super PAC, Extempers for Prosperity. His super PAC is meant to raise awareness about how dumb super PACs really are.

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