When Crossroads GPS went up with an ad last week accusing Democrat Tim
Kaine of wanting to raise taxes, it wasn't the first time he'd heard
that claim from a conservative group. Nor was it the first time the
Virginia candidate for U.S. Senate had been the subject of an attack ad
-- far from it.
And it sure wasn't the first time he'd been pilloried by a group that won't say where it gets its money.
That has become increasingly common in the 2012 political landscape. Outside spending so far this election cycle, by super PACs and other groups, has eclipsed that in all previous cycles combined at this point, going back to 1990. And in that universe, money spent by groups that don't disclose their donors is playing a far bigger role than it ever has.
Kaine ranks No. 3 on our list of the 10 candidates who have attracted the most spending by these groups whose funding streams are a mystery. Shadow money organizations like Crossroads GPS -- which GOP operative Karl Rove helped start, and for which he still raises funds and strategizes -- have spent $11.4 million attacking him, nearly two-thirds of the more than $18 million in outside money that's been spent against him (not including spending by political parties). Crossroads is responsible for a staggering $8 million of that.
Read more: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/shadow-moneys-top-10-candidates.html
And it sure wasn't the first time he'd been pilloried by a group that won't say where it gets its money.
That has become increasingly common in the 2012 political landscape. Outside spending so far this election cycle, by super PACs and other groups, has eclipsed that in all previous cycles combined at this point, going back to 1990. And in that universe, money spent by groups that don't disclose their donors is playing a far bigger role than it ever has.
Kaine ranks No. 3 on our list of the 10 candidates who have attracted the most spending by these groups whose funding streams are a mystery. Shadow money organizations like Crossroads GPS -- which GOP operative Karl Rove helped start, and for which he still raises funds and strategizes -- have spent $11.4 million attacking him, nearly two-thirds of the more than $18 million in outside money that's been spent against him (not including spending by political parties). Crossroads is responsible for a staggering $8 million of that.
Read more: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/shadow-moneys-top-10-candidates.html
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