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At the Races: UnPACing
Will the PAC pauses last? Some members “will have forfeited the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — period, full stop,” Neil Bradley told reporters this week.
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Will the PAC pauses last? Some members “will have forfeited the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — period, full stop,” Neil Bradley told reporters this week.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Some of these private reassessments have been prompted by the crassest reason imaginable — the growing corporate move to cut off PAC support for the 147 senators and House
Bush administration, said the withholding of $5,000 PAC checks wouldn’t make a huge difference to many multimillion-dollar political campaigns.
Rachel Irwin, a spokeswoman for the Democratic super PAC Senate Majority PAC, noted that GOP outside groups outspent Democratic ones on the airwaves.
ICYMI 2022 ads begin: Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House GOP leadership, launched a “five-figure” digital ad buy Monday targeting vulnerable Democrats over their votes
While not taking corporate PAC money, the Democrats are taking money from PACs formed by issue groups and labor unions.
Peachtree PAC: SLF is also connected to Peachtree PAC, a new super PAC that popped up for the Georgia runoffs.
A new ad launched over the weekend from a group tied to the Democratic super PAC Senate Majority PAC uses footage of Loeffler saying in a TV interview that she is “not seeing a big need to extend
Luria may have forgotten why corporate PAC money is so damaging to democracy and her constituents, but we haven’t,” the group said.
Those ads were paid for by a super PAC called Start the Fire, a single-candidate committee that Harris charged was funded almost exclusively by lobbyists.
Starting gate PAC track: A record 155 incumbents and challengers vowed to reject corporate PAC money during the 2020 cycle, but potential cracks in the trend have begun to emerge, including a change
“I was having the same conversation 30 times a day,” Conway, the executive director of VIEW PAC, which supports GOP women running for office, said in a recent interview.
Newsom’s choice: Several Black political groups, including the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, the Collective PAC, Higher Heights for America PAC and ALPHA PAC, issued a joint statement Tuesday urging
This week, the Democratic group Senate Majority PAC launched ads knocking both Perdue and Loeffler for stock trading as the pandemic hit.
Starting gate Surfing the ‘green wave’: The House Democratic “green wave” of campaign cash returned in 2020, and the GOP super PAC Congressional Leadership Fund jumped in to help close the spending
Julie Conway, executive director of VIEW Pac, which supports Republican women running for office, told CQ Roll Call that the huge class of 2018 midterm winners opened some GOP women up to the idea
Unlike in 2018, this year’s “green wave” of Democratic money didn’t produce a “blue wave” of victories, thanks in part to a super PAC that helped Republicans close the spending gap.
Cárdenas chaired BOLD PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, during the 2020 cycle.
“We are going all in for pro-life champions Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue,” Mallory Quigley, national spokeswoman for the independent expenditure campaign of Women Speak Out PAC, said in a statement
The Democratic super PAC House Majority PAC launched new ads in 14 districts this week highlighting those themes. Democratic candidates are doing the same.