Two Friends Invest a Million to Help a Buddy Win Election

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-22/two-friends-invest-a-million-to-help-a-buddy-win-election.html



Two childhood friends are bankrolling Paige Kreegel’s bid to win a U.S. House seat.

They set up a $1 million super-political action committee that spread Kreegel’s message on Florida television, by automated telephone calls and in the mail when his own campaign couldn’t afford to do so. Their contributions to the super-PAC, Values Are Vital, amounted to about 10 times the sum Kreegel raised from other donors for the race.

Today, they will find out if there’s a return on their investment in a Republican primary that will likely determine the next representative, given the district’s partisan bent. Kreegel, who lost a run for the same seat in a crowded primary in 2012, benefited this year from the super-PAC’s intimidating role, he said in a videotaped interview last month with the Naples Daily News editorial board.

“It did keep us from becoming a six-way race,” said Kreegel, who is facing two serious competitors in tonight’s vote. “It’s done its job.”

[rurallib]

1. What to buy a friend for his birthday? How about a nice

seat in Congress?

Voters are just superfluous anymore.

[pipoman]

2. How much did the other candidates spend?

[Blue Owl]

3. Wow man, the GOP sure is grassroots

Then there were these two brothers that invested $300 million plus...

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[Romulox]

4. Free speech! nt

[stage left]

5. What to get

For the man who has everything.