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Republican strategist Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS group is planning to spend at least $23 million in key Senate races in the final two months of the campaign. The group is a tax-exempt non-profit and is allowed to keep the names of its donors secret. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption
Republican strategist Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS group is planning to spend at least $23 million in key Senate races in the final two months of the campaign. The group is a tax-exempt non-profit and is allowed to keep the names of its donors secret.
Democrats this election have done a good job attracting a lot of big donors, but Republicans appear to have the big advantage when it comes to big secret donors.
The strength of Democratic House and Senate fundraising committees and their supporting superPACs has been a surprise development this cycle, even as the Senate seems poised to flip to Republican control and the House is almost certain to remain under GOP leadership.
Now Republicans will get even more help from their big guns from the past two elections: the tax-exempt nonprofit groups Americans for Prosperity and Crossroads GPS.
Americans for Prosperity, founded by the industrialist billionaire Koch brothers, has already been running tens of millions worth of ads attacking Democratic senators in key states. Now it says it will also run ads specifically telling voters to defeat those Democrats on Nov. 4. It will not reveal how much it intends to spend, but earlier media reports suggest the group's total outlays this election could be near $300 million, although that figure includes voter registration and turnout efforts.
Crossroads GPS, co-founded by GOP operative Karl Rove, is on track to raise some $75 million this election, according to spokesman Paul Lindsay, and will spend at least $23 million of that in the final two months of the campaign in six states, including $9.5 million in Colorado alone.
Democrats and liberals, in contrast, have focused on superPACs that disclose the name of every donor who gives more than $200. Tom Steyer, the San Francisco investor and climate change activist, has given $40.9 million to his NextGen Climate Action Committee and $5 million to Senate Majority PAC, according to an NPR review of Federal Election Commission records. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has donated $6.9 million to his pro-gun control Independence USA PAC and $2 million to Emily's List's Women Vote superPAC.
But in terms of groups that keep their donors secret, Patriot Majority USA and the League of Conservation Voters are the only Democratic-leaning nonprofits that have spent more than $1 million on election-related activity so far, with each reporting about $7 million in spending to the FEC.
How much these politically oriented nonprofit groups will actually raise and spend won't be known until next spring, when their annual filings to the Internal Revenue Service come due. But while those documents show how much was raised and how it was spent, the names of the donors will likely remain secret forever. That actually is the only advantage for donors there is no tax deduction or other financial benefit to giving to these groups rather than to superPACs.
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WASHINGTON National Democrats are scaling back on spending in House races where Democrats are challenging Republicans, but are buttressing Democrats trying to hold onto House seats, moves that could affect two relatively close races in the St. Louis area.
The net effect may be that St. Louis-area TV viewers could see fewer political ads from Illinois' 12th and 13th Districts over the next month - at least from the Democrats.
As Politico reported today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has decided to pull October advertising dollars on St. Louis TV it had set aside for Democrat Ann Callis, who is challenging Illinois' 13th District Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville. A DCCC aide estimated that about $420,000 worth of advertising intended to help Callis may now be directed into other districts. But the DCCC official pointed out that it will continue to advertise for Callis on Champaign, Ill., television for at least three weeks in October.
The DCCC, which put an estimated $1 million of advertising on St. Louis TV in September on behalf of Rep. Bill Enyart, D-Belleville, intends to expand a pro-Enyart TV buy out of Paducah, Ky., which covers the southern end of Enyart's district, according to a DCCC aide. The DCCC also currently plans to be on the air for Enyart at the two weeks before the election. Enyart faces Republican challenger Mike Bost, an Illinois state legislator, in one of the country's hardest-fought House races.
DCCC spokesman Brandon Lorenz said that "ad reservations are changing every week, and Judge Ann Callis is running an aggressive campaign in a tough climate."
National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Katie Prill said the decision could be a "fatal blow" to the challenge campaign of Callis, who trailed Davis by double digits in a poll released publicly last week.
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