In Montana, Dark Money Helped Democrats Hold a Key Senate Seat

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http://www.alternet.org/montana-dark-money-helped-democrats-hold-key-senate-seat




In the waning days of Montana's hotly contested Senate race, a small outfit called Montana Hunters and Anglers, launched by liberal activists, tried something drastic.

It didn't buy ads supporting the incumbent Democrat, Sen. Jon Tester. Instead, it put up radio and TV commercials that urged voters to choose the third-party candidate, libertarian Dan Cox, describing Cox as the "real conservative" or the "true conservative."

Where did the group's money come from? Nobody knows.

The pro-Cox ads were part of a national pattern in which groups that did not disclose their donors, including social welfare nonprofits and trade associations, played a larger role than ever before in trying to sway U.S. elections. Throughout the 2012 election, ProPublica has focused on the growing importance of this so-called dark money in national and local races.

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1. Good! We gotta fight them on their turf to remain competitive.

we need to have $1 more than they do.

a winner does what a loser won't-that is win.

and you gotta be in it to win it

Same with the NRA. Thank God we now have a great Equalizer (Mike Bloomberg) to finance any/all candidates who will go against the pro-NRA one.

the days of blackmail because the other side gives more money are over.