How Candidates Are Doubling Their Campaign Donations
Via the National Journal
Darin LaHood is raising money for his 2016 reelection campaign. That’s unremarkable: Just about every incumbent is stockpiling cash for next November. The difference is, LaHood isn’t an incumbent, and if he wants to have a House seat to defend, he has two other elections to win first.
LaHood, an Illinois Republican state senator and son of former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, is running in a special House election to replace Rep. Aaron Schock, who resigned in March amid a series of financial scandals. The special primary is in July, with the general election set for September.
But as LaHood goes to donors asking for help, he’s asking them to take a double dip: Make the maximum-allowable contribution for his special election, and at the same time shell out the maximum allowable amount for a potential reelection bid in 2016.
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