Senate Winners Aided by $127 Million from Dark Money Groups
Via Bloomberg Politics
Winning U.S. Senate candidates got a nice boost from groups that don’t fully disclose their contributors.
In 10 key Senate contests, the winners benefited from $127 million in outside help from such organizations, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
About 71 percent of the outside spending (excluding national party committees like the DSCC and NRSC) benefiting the 10 winning candidates came from these groups, which are frequently labeled as “dark money” groups by advocates of revising campaign finance laws and of more disclosure in reporting political donations. These groups have resisted proposed regulations on their activity as an infringement of their First Amendment free-speech rights.
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