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The billionaire chair of Kleiner Perkins, who co-founded the industry lobby TechNet, set up a nonprofit, Incaendo, that gave more than $10 million to Democratic dark money groups last year.
The California ballot measure would let cities, counties, and the state match small donations with public funds. Backers led by the League of Women Voters say it’s a counterweight to wealthy donors.
As some Democrats move to ban federal use of its license plate cameras, the surveillance company has hired some of the party’s biggest fundraisers.
Peltola pledges to fight dark money, but her campaign did not say whether she would urge the groups backing her to reveal their funding sources.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse holds millions in data center stocks while helping negotiate a bill that would limit states’ water-quality reviews and restrict court challenges to energy projects.
Democrat-aligned firms have been paid more than $7 million by AIPAC's super PAC and its ally DMFI since 2021.
Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of millions in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 million. Williams has publicly backed his bill.
CACI stock has risen more than 70% since Linda McCaul's first purchase, as the contractor wins counter-drone contracts, including a spot on a $1.5 billion DHS program operating under her husband's 2018 law.
Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think tank that has received funding from Google, Meta, and Amazon.
The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their influence spending amid legal battles with state gambling regulators.
