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Liberal group spends $4 million to boost secretary of state races
Source: Politico
A liberal group focused on secretary of state races is making its first major investments of the midterm election cycle, putting down seven-figure buys in a pair of states where the chief election officer is on the ballot in November.
iVote, the organization behind the buys, is launching $2 million TV advertising campaigns in both Minnesota and Michigan. Both states have incumbent Democratic secretaries of state: Steve Simon and Jocelyn Benson, respectively.
POLITICO first reported on the plans for the new buy. The group had previously announced its intentions to spend $15 million on a paid media campaign this cycle about twice as much as it spent during the 2018 cycle.
The difference between a functioning Democracy and a constitutional crisis-in-waiting is who wins these seats, Hari Sevugan, an iVote board member who in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary was deputy campaign manager for Pete Buttigieg, now the Transportation secretary, said in a statement to POLITICO.
iVote, the organization behind the buys, is launching $2 million TV advertising campaigns in both Minnesota and Michigan. Both states have incumbent Democratic secretaries of state: Steve Simon and Jocelyn Benson, respectively.
POLITICO first reported on the plans for the new buy. The group had previously announced its intentions to spend $15 million on a paid media campaign this cycle about twice as much as it spent during the 2018 cycle.
The difference between a functioning Democracy and a constitutional crisis-in-waiting is who wins these seats, Hari Sevugan, an iVote board member who in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary was deputy campaign manager for Pete Buttigieg, now the Transportation secretary, said in a statement to POLITICO.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/secretary-of-state-ivote-00058499
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Liberal group spends $4 million to boost secretary of state races (Original Post)
brooklynite
Sep 2022
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olddad65
(599 posts)1. As opposed to the $1.6 billion the opposition has to work with.
Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society has 1.6 billion in dark money to spend on various sec of state races.
Demsrule86
(68,576 posts)2. Excellent...
live love laugh
(13,109 posts)3. Wonderful news. Expecting RW propagandist attacks.
This is the first organized threat of its type Ive been aware of.
dclarston13
(411 posts)4. Where is Warren Buffet when we need him?
Hopefully someone will fill the gap.