Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Roy Moore, ‘Kinky Boots’ and 2017’s Most Important Election
The TV spot in question was not the bland bio ad for Democrat Doug Jones sponsored by Highway 31, a supportive super PAC.
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Policy · 115th Congress
HHS Pick at Odds With Trump’s Rhetoric on Drug Prices
Outside of the PAC contributions, Azar donated exclusively to Republican candidates, including $5,400 in 2016 to the Trump campaign and affiliated entities.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Short Life Span of the Trump-McConnell Buddy Movie
The Koch Brothers and their network of Super PAC contributors have announced plans to spend as much as $400 million on the 2018 elections to ensure that the Republicans retain control of Capitol Hill
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Tax Cut Question — Will Voters Feel Richer or Betrayed by Trump?
Corry Bliss, who heads the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC close to Paul Ryan, told me over the summer, “The most important thing for 2018 is whether Republicans cut middle-class taxes
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Amid the Alabama Mess, a Reason for Optimism
President Donald Trump is backing Strange; Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s super PAC has spent more than $10 million to attack Strange’s Republican rivals, often with a barrage of false
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Strange Times for Mitch McConnell in the Alabama Senate Race
The Senate Leadership Fund, a McConnell-aligned super PAC, has spent more than $7 million attacking Strange’s opponents, including Moore, as insufficiently conservative.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: The Two-Party System on a Sick Bed
What gives heft to these threats is Bannon’s financial backer — conservative billionaire super PAC baron Robert Mercer.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Trump’s Two-Front War Against McConnell and North Korea
Aggressively championing the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision and unbridled super PAC barons like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson, McConnell weakened the Republican Party and made it vulnerable
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: GOP Tax Dilemma — Somebody’s Got to Pay More
If Republican interest groups and super PAC barons had their way, the only items on the table would probably be corporate tax benefits and rate reductions for the wealthy.
Opinion · 115th Congress
Opinion: Meet the New President — All 50 of Them
The month before, the PAC supporting Trump’s agenda took out attack ads against Republican Sen. Dean Heller in Nevada, who had announced he was a “no” on the initial Senate health care bill.
Opinion: Would Trump Nuke Congressional Budget Rules?
Both a border adjustment tax and the elimination of the business deduction for carried interest would divide the GOP majority by pitting one super PAC billionaire against another.
Opinion: Trump Needs to Reread ‘The Art of the Comeback’
One wrinkle of the super PAC era is that a president and his party can no longer bludgeon rebellious legislators into submission by cutting off their campaign money.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Parody: What If Bernie Sanders Actually Endorsed Trump?
There is a reason why the only newspapers that have endorsed him are owned by his son-in-law and conservative super PAC oligarch Sheldon Adelson.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Finding Sanity in a N.Y. District 3 Hours North of Trump Tower
But in a super PAC era, the candidates themselves are bystanders in their own campaigns.
Opinion · 114th Congress
New Sanders Group Illustrates Legal Compliance Challenges
explicitly recognize only two types of “political committees” that may be “established, financed, maintained or controlled” by a federal candidate or elected official: a campaign committee and a leadership PAC
Opinion · 114th Congress
John Boehner’s Parting Gift for GOP ‘Knuckleheads’: Re-Election
Of the 25 lawmakers who voted against the Ohio Republican for speaker in 2015, the CRP found that 19 of them took money from his Freedom Project leadership PAC, including Florida Rep.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Republicans, Don Your Hazmat Suits
There are no guaranteed strategies other than maybe using a time machine to go back to last fall to get the GOP super PAC billionaires to take down Trump while they still had a shot
Opinion · 114th Congress
MIA: The Black Men Who Ought to Have Shown Up for Donna Edwards
She did, however, win the blessing of Raising Our Sisters’ Assets Political Action Committee (ROSA PAC), which supports women of color running for Congress.
Opinion · 114th Congress
Did the White House Just Endorse in the Maryland Senate Primary?
issue, campaign finance reform, on which Van Hollen’s foes have been most disingenuous and spiteful—so much so that, according to news reports, White House political director David Simas asked a super PAC
Opinion · 114th Congress
Caveman for President
After an anti-Trump super PAC ran a barely-seen Facebook ad with a picture of Mrs.