Corporate-Funded ‘Blue Dog’ Dems Plan New Super PAC and Dark Money Group
The new groups will give the Blue Dogs a new way to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on their campaigns, possibly including money from sources that go undisclosed.
The new groups will give the Blue Dogs a new way to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money on their campaigns, possibly including money from sources that go undisclosed.
The Alaska Democrat, who pushed for approval of ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow oil drilling project in the state, got a campaign boost from a Conoco-funded super PAC.
Schrader’s new lobbying employer works for numerous drug companies like Pfizer and Sanofi, plus industry trade association PhRMA.
The dark-money group Center Forward, which is buying the ads, has received millions from the pharmaceutical industry in recent years.
The Texas Democrat has taken hundreds of thousands from defense companies with histories of ripping off taxpayers.
As corporate-backed Democrats threaten to block the party's reconciliation bill, their talking points draw on support from deficit scold allies among party leaders and well-funded ideological groups.
The Well News, founded by employees of a Blue Dog-affiliated nonprofit, appears to be exploiting a campaign finance loophole to run ads boosting Blue Dog Democrats.