After winning one of 2020’s most expensive House races, Nunes resigns to lead Trump media company

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December 9, 2021
This week in money-in-politics

After winning one of 2020’s most expensive House races, Nunes resigns to lead Trump media company


Rep. Devin Nunes will resign from Congress at the end of the year to lead former President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group, which would create a social media platform to rival Twitter.
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Defense lobbying hits eight-year high ahead of defense spending bill

The defense sector spent $98.9 million lobbying in the first three quarters of 2021 ahead of the NDAA passing the House.

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Perdue announces bid for Georgia governor following record-breaking 2021 Senate runoff

David Perdue’s 2021 loss helped give Democrats control of the Senate. Now, he’s running for Georgia governor.

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Bob Dole, longtime Republican senator and standard-bearer, dies

Bob Dole, the longtime Kansas senator and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, died on Sunday.

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OpenSecrets welcomes Roy W. Howard Investigative Fellow

With support from the Scripps Howard Foundation, OpenSecrets will host Howard Center Fellow Jimmy Cloutier for a year-long investigative fellowship starting in January 2022. Jimmy is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. At the university’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, he reported on police surveillance and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As Jack Dorsey exits Twitter, company’s lobbying on the rise

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced on Monday he would resign as CEO of the social media company.

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As omicron spreads, a look at how the delta variant affected travel and hospitality spending

Travel and hospitality companies spent more on lobbying during the delta variant surge — there’s no sign that will change with omicron.

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** Both sides planning for new state-by-state abortion fight (The Washington Post) ([link removed])

Both sides seem to have been preparing for this moment for years, particularly with Trump having installed more than 200 federal judges and three Supreme Court justices during his presidency. Pro-abortion-access groups donated $8 million in 2018 and more than $10 million in 2020, according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan group that tracks political spending.

** Biden embraces his one-time foe: Walmart (Politico) ([link removed])

Political giving from Walmart’s PAC has evened out over the years, according to data from the money-in-politics watchdog group OpenSecrets. The PAC gave $1.32 million to Republicans compared to just $358,500 to Democrats in the 2004 cycle.

** Influential Koch network rocked by an alleged affair scandal, donor departures and a discrimination lawsuit (CNBC) ([link removed])
During the 2020 election, the group’s related but separate super PAC largely backed GOP contenders at the federal level, according to data from the nonpartisan OpenSecrets. This year, it supported Glenn Youngkin in his victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
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