Secret donors paid for $5M in ads for North Carolina senator
Source: AP
By JULIE BYKOWICZ and GARY D. ROBERTSON
WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly $5 million in advertising to help elect Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis in last year's midterm elections came from a group that does not have to disclose its donors.
That's according to tax filings made public on Tuesday by Crossroads GPS. That group was co-founded by Karl Rove, a strategist for former President George W. Bush.
The filings show that Crossroads gave $4.8 million to Carolina Rising, another nonprofit. That grant made up almost its entire budget.
In turn, Carolina Rising spent nearly every penny of that money on pro-Tillis television ads.
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