North Carolina congressional candidates shuffle districts after new redistricting maps
Armed with their 2021 fundraising hauls, some North Carolina congressional candidates are set to campaign in different districts than they previously represented or campaigned for.
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Hypocrisy watch: ‘Dark money’ groups complain about dark money (The Washington Post) In the 10-year period spanning from its 2010 filing with the Internal Revenue Service to its 2019 filing, the Concord Fund/Judicial Crisis Network reported more than $133 million in revenue, according to Anna Massoglia, editorial and investigations manager at OpenSecrets. “Just from mid-2015 through mid-2020, the group brought in more than $116 million in revenue,” she noted, with its most recent filing showing $20.4 million in revenue.
Amazon’s Washington Strategy Wins Few New Friends in the Biden Era (The Wall Street Journal) Since hiring Mr. Carney, Amazon has expanded its lobbying operations. It spent $19.3 million on lobbying firms last year—more than any other corporation besides Facebook, which spent $20.1 million—and up from $4.7 million in 2014, the year before Mr. Carney was hired, according to data compiled by Amazon and OpenSecrets.
