OpenSecrets in the News

See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:

G.O.P. Senate Candidate in North Carolina Thrives as 2 Key Backers Squabble (The New York Times)
The Club for Growth, an influential anti-tax group has spent $32 million on federal races this year. That amount is twice as much as that by any other outside group — and much of that spending has been against candidates Mr. Trump has endorsed, according to campaign finance data compiled by OpenSecrets.

Healthcare corporations Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare are among the biggest financial backers of lawmakers behind state abortion bans (Business Insider)
"The health industry is one of the biggest campaign-finance donors in general," said Andrew Mayersohn, a researcher at the nonprofit, nonpartisan campaign-finance research organization OpenSecrets. "If you are a major player, then you tend to give to a wide variety of candidates from across the political spectrum."

W.Va's ethics laws allow someone barred from lobbying to try to influence legislators anyway (The Register-Herald)
“Hiring someone for lobbying immediately after leaving office is somewhat similar to having a nonvoting public official as your lobbyist,” said Pete Quist, the deputy research director at the nonprofit OpenSecrets, which tracks money in politics. “It creates unequal access for members of the public.”