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August 29th, 2019
This week in money-in-politics

Anonymously funded groups drop $1M on Joni Ernst’s 2020 Senate race

[link removed] Sen. Joni Ernst‘s (R-Iowa) 2020 re-election bid and Iowa’s congressional races are a million-dollar battleground for anonymously funded political groups.

Groups aligned with Democrats and Republicans, but not run by particular candidates’ campaigns, have already spent more than $600,000 apiece in Iowa to sway voters’ opinions of Ernst, a Republican, or attack “Medicare for All,” the health care plan championed by some Democrats, according to filings with the Federal Communications Commission and compiled with OpenSecrets’ ad data tool.

The ad campaigns come more than a year before the general election and are airing when the state’s political bandwidth is otherwise consumed by the Democratic presidential caucus race.

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** Anti-establishment conservative PAC weighs in on Senate primaries
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The Senate Conservatives Fund has already spent more than $176,000 on independent expenditures supporting businessman John James, state Rep. Arnold Mooney and retired General Don Bolduc, three Republicans aiming to take on vulnerable Democratic senators in 2020. Read more ([link removed])
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** Progressive firms find clients as they defy DCCC ‘blacklist’
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The House Democrats’ official campaign arm is attracting controversy by rejecting political consulting firms and individuals that work with insurgent primary challengers. But several of those firms are still getting business from progressive House primary candidates and even presidential contestants. Read More ([link removed])
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** What are joint fundraising committees, and how are they helping Trump?
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A Republican fundraiser in the Hamptons in early August featuring an appearance by President Donald Trump sold tickets for as much as $250,000. Earlier this year, two sisters from Indiana each gave $865,000 to the Democratic Grassroots Victory Fund — the largest individual contributions this year that did not go to a super PAC. ([link removed]) Read More ([link removed])

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CRP board welcomes Mark Hansen
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The Center for Responsive Politics is pleased to announce the election of Mark Hansen to the Center’s board of directors.

Mr. Hansen is the director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation and a professor of journalism at Columbia University where he teaches advanced data analysis and computational journalism. Prior to his work at Columbia, Mr. Hansen was a professor at UCLA and a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. For nearly three decades, Hansen has been working at the intersection of data, art and technology and has an active art practice involving the presentation of data for the public. He has served as a visiting researcher at the New York Times R&D Lab, a late-career intern at the Marshall Project, and a consultant with HBO Sports.

Hansen holds a B.S. in Applied Math from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D and M.A. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been awarded eight patents and has published over 60 papers in data science, statistics and computer science.
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See where we've been cited by media outlets around the nation this week.

* ** Banks Plan to Boost Campaign Spending in 2020 (The Wall Street Journal) ([link removed])
Banks plan to be more active in the 2020 elections, with a large industry group promising to boost campaign spending and political advertising.

* ** The Race For Cory Gardner’s Senate Seat Is Already Loaded With Candidates — And Cash (Colorado Public Radio) ([link removed])
With a large Democratic primary field and a competitive environment, the 2020 race to be the next senator in Colorado is already one of the most expensive contests of the cycle.

* ** Olive Garden: Unlimited breadsticks, yes. Trump campaign donations, no. (The Washington Post) ([link removed])
"A quick search on OpenSecrets.org, the Center for Responsive Politics database that tracks campaign contributions, shows that neither Darden nor its employees have made donations for the 2020 campaign."

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