In the first two months of this year, 20 percent of all the money spent on election advocacy came from conservative political groups attacking Republican candidates — a total of $2.3 million.
On The Money: A House Divided Against Itself
Credit: Gage Skidmore
March 11, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

In the first two months of this year, 20 percent of all the money spent on election advocacy came from conservative political groups attacking Republican candidates — a total of $2.3 million — reports The Center for Public Integrity.

Super PACs, nonprofits fueling GOP strife → A Republican civil war is gathering steam as we head toward the 2014 midterm elections. Dave Levinthal at The Center for Public Integrity crunched the data and came up with a startling figure — in the first two months of this year, 20 percent of all the money spent on election advocacy came from conservative p...

Continue reading...

Can you help us out?

For nearly 20 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit, but now Facebook is drowning us in an ocean of right wing lies. Please give a one-time or recurring donation, or buy a year's subscription for an ad-free experience. Thank you.

Discussion

We welcome relevant, respectful comments. Any comments that are sexist or in any other way deemed hateful by our staff will be deleted and constitute grounds for a ban from posting on the site. Please refer to our Terms of Service for information on our posting policy.
Mastodon