Kerry also pledged during the campaign to form a new Department of Wellness that would promote preventive medicine.

Though candidates often use PACs as springboards to launch presidential campaigns, Giesser insisted that Kerry was not focused on another run for the White House.

"We just finished a campaign," he told the Globe. "This is a leadership organization ... based on the vision and ideas that John Kerry will continue to fight for and that many millions of Americans support."

Giesser said Kerry would use the PAC to "speak out, promote new policies, hold Republicans accountable, and support Democratic candidates at all levels."

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