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Georgia Democrat dramatizes message on health care — by giving up her own
Neither candidate is taking corporate PAC money. Paul Fontelo contributed to this report.
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Neither candidate is taking corporate PAC money. Paul Fontelo contributed to this report.
It’s a reality she is working to change with E-PAC, a political action committee dedicated to electing Republican women to Congress.
Susan Collins, has taken the no-corporate PAC pledge, as has Democrat Cal Cunningham of North Carolina, who is running to face off against Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican.
In 2013, they gave $100,000 to a PAC for Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, when he was running for the White House, and $61,600 to the Republican National Committee.
Priorities USA, the major super PAC playing in the presidential race on the Democratic side, considers Georgia a “Lean Republican” state, but it’s included as one of its five “expansion” territories
But the leader of one Democratic super PAC also pointed out that actively campaigning on impeachment may not be necessary. “Impeachment is going to be on television a lot.
The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA ranks it among core states that will be critical to taking back the White House.
But Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, donors to a pro-Trump super PAC called America First Action and associates of Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, were arrested in October for allegedly disguising foreign
“We’re working it out with what kind of expenses we’re going to need to wind down and whether it needs to be converted or when it needs to be converted into a multi-candidate PAC,” she said.
The Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House GOP leadership, launched digital ads in 29 Democratic districts, with the text, “Your member of Congress just voted for impeachment
The Democratic super PAC focused on Senate races is announcing a new round of senior staff hires, according to an announcement shared first with CQ Roll Call.
Prosperity Action, the Wisconsin Republican’s leadership PAC, transferred $1.6 million to the new group in installments in March, April and June of this year, federal election disclosures show.
While donations from Fruman and Parnas to the Trump campaign and an affiliated super PAC have grabbed headlines, Republican members of Congress were also drawn into the scandal, though they do not
Parnas was indicted last week on charges that included making an illegal campaign contribution through a shell corporation to a PAC that supported President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
He also started a political action committee, Vape PAC, which raised over $3,000 and distributed some 400,000 postcards.
When a PAC that supported a failed West Virginia Senate candidate found out it may have received an illegal contribution tied to two men at the center of the Trump impeachment controversy, the first reaction
misspelling of his last name as “Furman” — which the indictment says he did deliberately to avoid FEC scrutiny — gave $100,000 to Protect the House, $66,950 to the NRCC and $2,173.92 to Majority Committee PAC
The two are accused of making $325,000 illegal straw donations to a super PAC that supports Trump and an additional $15,000 donation to a PAC that supported West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey
They also gave to the Republican National Committee, the Trump campaign and a pro-Trump super PAC, FEC data shows. The Texas congressman received $5,400 from the two men last year.
Kristin Brackemyre, director of PAC and government relations at the Public Affairs Council, which represents many companies and organizations that lobby, said she found some of the proposals troubling