Campaigns · 117th Congress
Backed by ex-Rep. Cedric Richmond, Troy Carter wins Louisiana 2nd District runoff
Carter also reported taking in more than $105,000 in the campaign’s final days, including $2,500 from the leadership PAC of New York Rep.
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Carter also reported taking in more than $105,000 in the campaign’s final days, including $2,500 from the leadership PAC of New York Rep.
Outside GOP groups such as the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, worked to close the spending gap, though individual candidate fundraising was still
Carter Peterson has also picked up support from the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Black Lives Matter PAC and the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, all of which have spent six figures or more
Spokespersons for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic-aligned House Majority PAC did not respond to requests for comment.
For the last two cycles, Democrats gained significant mileage in attacking corporations by refusing to accept their PAC contributions.
Two years later, the same corporate PAC disclosed no donations at all.
Richmond’s leadership PAC, Who Dat PAC, donated $5,000. Vaquero PAC, the leadership PAC of new Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman Filemon Vela, also donated $5,000.
If media reports are correct that the PAC spent on direct advertising only about a third of the $90 million it raised, with much going to board members and their companies, I suspect Democratic donors
The corporate PAC donations, totaling about $34,000 and all coming in December, also came from the funds connected to Boeing, BAE Systems, Ernst & Young and AFLAC, among others, the FEC documents
It also splits its donations with the moderate Tuesday Group PAC, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission.
What does the public understand that PAC critics don’t? For starters, PACs are the best example of campaign finance reform that works.
He added that lumping members of both parties into the PAC pauses seemed to besmirch Democrats when it was exclusively Republicans who voted against decertifying electoral results.
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.
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.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made the largest contribution, sending a combined $500,000 to the joint committee from his campaign and leadership PAC.
more individually than their company’s PAC.
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.
“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