Hughes and his husband, SeanEldridge, have decided not to give money to any Super PACs, and to match any donations they make to candidates with donations to groups working to diminish the role of money in politics.
Fewer than 100 days after Gibson survived his first reelection campaign, wealthy 26-year-old investor Sean Eldridge--who is married to Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and campaigned for New York's gay-marriage law--filed Federal Election Commission papers to run in the district.