The PAC supported political candidates for state and local offices in Illinois who "are committed to the economic liberty policy agenda.
[2] The idea behind Liberty Principles PAC, according to Proft, was to "improve the quality of policy thinking" and "change the balance of power in the Illinois General Assembly.
[4] State Rep. Scott Drury (D-Highwood) filed the suit in October 2014 in Cook County Circuit Court against Liberty Principles PAC and Dan Proft, a political commentator and morning show host for WLS-890.
[7] An Illinois appellate panel later revived the defamation suit filed by Loevy & Loevy attorney and former Illinois Rep. Scott Drury against Dan Proft and The Liberty Principles PAC, finding a lower court erred in granting the defendants summary judgment before resolving a discovery dispute.
Reversing a summary judgment win for the Liberty Principles PAC and Dan Proft, a Chicago radio host and former Republican candidate for Illinois governor, the appellate court said on Tuesday that a Cook County judge abused their discretion when they resolved the case before ruling on Drury’s motion to compel discovery, saying the defendants have conceded that some of the discovery sought in that request was relevant to the issue of actual malice, a central issue of the summary judgment motion.