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January 5, 2023
Club for Growth cuts deal with Congressional Leadership Fund to support Kevin McCarthy’s House speaker bid
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The conservative advocacy group Club for Growth announced late Wednesday that it had reached a deal with the Congressional Leadership Fund — a hybrid PAC endorsed by Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — “on support for Speaker Kevin McCarthy” as the U.S. House speaker battle enters its third day.
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Following record fundraising cycle, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis woos donors and lobbyists at inauguration events
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was sworn in Tuesday after raising more than $217 million for his reelection bid, the most raised by any gubernatorial candidate in U.S. history.
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Defense sector contributed heavily to 45 senators who secured $1.8 billion in military construction earmarks
U.S. senators securing military construction earmarks in the omnibus bill received an average of 51% more money from the defense sector than other senators during the 2022 election cycle.
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Antitrust target Ticketmaster spends big on lobbying amid woeful 2022 (The Guardian) [[link removed]]
“The spending has a lot to do with them playing defense because they have been accused for several years of behavior that has been anticompetitive, they have been accused of being a monopoly company and they have the DoJ investigation, so they are fighting on a number of fronts,” Krumholz said.
Trump taxes show foreign income from more than a dozen countries (POLITICO) [[link removed]]
His far-flung concerns, foreign and domestic, are nested in more than 400 separate business entities. A 2019 report by the watchdog group OpenSecrets said he had more than $130 million in assets in more than 30 countries.
Did Republicans Know about George Santos Ahead of Time? (The Intercept) [[link removed]]
Outside help for Santos came in the form of $3,377 from the National Right to Life Victory Fund, according to OpenSecrets, and a $54,000 transfer from Take Back the House 2022 PAC, a group aligned with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, according to federal filings — peanuts in a race that saw millions spent.
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