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☆ Peter Thiel's picks Masters, Vance split key Senate races in Arizona, Ohio after billionaire spent $32 million on 2022 midterms
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Peter Thiel, president and founder of Clarium Capital Management LLC, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Billionaire and Republican megadonor Peter Thiel's $32 million investment in the 2022 midterm elections saw mixed results, as two of his former employees split U.S. Senate races that will help to decide control of the chamber. Thiel instead opted to pile more money into Republican Blake Masters' bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona. Thiel jolted Masters' Senate bid early on with a $15 million donation to a pro-Masters super PAC during Arizona's primary election, according to Federal Election Commission records. Records show that Thiel contributed similar amounts to Republican Reps. Mike McCaul, Chris Stewart, Michael Waltz, Tom Cole and Mario Diaz-Balart.
☆ Democratic state Rep. Summer Lee faces off against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District election
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Democrat Summer Lee is running against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee faces off against Republican Mike Doyle in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. Prior to entering public office, the progressive firebrand worked as an attorney and labor organizer, also leading voter mobilization efforts for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. The Republican Doyle told a local news station that he would support a federal abortion ban that includes exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. Voting history for Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional DistrictPennsylvania's 12th Congressional District includes the heavily Democratic city of Pittsburgh and covers western Westmoreland County.
☆ Democrats hit Sen. Ron Johnson on Jan. 6 remarks in new Wisconsin Senate ad
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Natasha Korecki | Natasha Korecki Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Democrats are ramping up their attacks on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin over his remarks downplaying the Jan. 6 riot with a new TV ad in the homestretch of the pivotal Senate race. The ad is paid for by the Senate Majority PAC — the Democrats’ main Senate super PAC — and End Citizens United, another political action committee. It’s also the first time Democrats have run a TV ad in the race highlighting Johnson’s remarks about the attack on the Capitol. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., at a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on Sept. 21. And yet you refused to investigate the deadly attack on our Capitol.”A digital ad earlier in the campaign also drew attention to Jan. 6.
☆ Sen. Cory Booker said 'there should be no super PACs for anyone,' but now he's raising money for one
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
In the past, Booker was opposed to super PACs, saying "there should be no super PACs for anyone." A solicitation from Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, on behalf of Giffords PAC, an anti-gun super PAC. Giffords PAC'No super PACs for anyone'In the past, Booker hasn't been so keen on super PACs. "That's why we're not taking corporate money, federal lobbyist money, pharma executive money," Booker told Bobic. In response to Phillips' launching a super PAC supporting Booker's presidential bid, Booker spokesman Jeff Giertz restated Booker's opposition to super PACs.
☆ Donald Trump is raising money off a "ransacking" in Florida — but it has nothing to do with Hurricane Ian
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Meanwhile, Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast. Mar-a-Lago, a sprawling 17-acre estate owned by Trump, is located in Palm Beach, Florida, and Trump is himself a Florida resident. The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Ian was generating a "catastrophic storm surge" with "widespread, life-threatening catastrophic flash and urban flooding." In the email, Trump asked his supporters to take a poll, titled, "Official Trump Election Year Poll." Trump sent the email during the 1 p.m. hour Eastern Time as Hurricane Ian neared landfall.
☆ A pro-Trump super PAC made illegal contributions to the president's reelection campaign, a watchdog group says
  + stars: | 2020-12-18 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center accused s uper PAC Our American Century spent illegally large sums of money to redistribute Trump campaign political advertisements. uper PAC Our American Century spent illegally large sums of money to redistribute Trump campaign political advertisements. The Campaign Legal Center accused Our American Century of spending up to $251,000 to redistribute an existing Trump campaign video while failing to reveal the super PAC — not the Trump campaign — bankrolled the ad blitz. A representative for the Trump campaign, which is not accused in the complaint of wrongdoing, also could not be reached. Scenes from the Federal Election Commission headquarters located at 1050 First St. NE Friday Sept. 21, 2018.
☆ A powerful group of lobbyists and donors pushed Mitch McConnell to take a 'hard red line' that delayed a stimulus bill for months
  + stars: | 2020-12-16 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +19 min
A powerful group of business organizations has pushed for the liability shields and donated generously to McConnell and other Republicans. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty ImagesThe Chamber of Commerce's big giveThe Chamber of Commerce has been among the most vocal proponents of liability protections. Overall, however, Walmart's workers and PAC gave about evenly to Democrats as to Republicans this election. Its PAC gave $9,000 to McConnell's campaign and gave $3,000 to Cornyn. During the past three decades, McConnell has received robust support from some of the industries lobbying hard for liability protections.
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