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Secret Donors Behind Some Super PACs Funneling Millions into Midterms
http://www.propublica.org/article/secret-donors-behind-some-super-pacs-funneling-millions-into-midtermsIn the final weeks before this year's elections, a super PAC called Key Questions, Key Answers started buying TV ads across Pennsylvania attacking Tom Wolf, the Democratic candidate for governor.
"Don't vote for a wolf in sheep's clothing," the narrator says in one of the ads as a sheep with Wolf's face bleats the word "taxes."
Like all super PACs — outside groups allowed to take unlimited amounts of money from individuals, corporations and unions — Key Questions must disclose its donors.
But last week, Key Questions told the Federal Election Commission it had just one, a social welfare nonprofit called Let Freedom Ring. Since social welfare nonprofits — sometimes called dark money groups — aren't required to identify their donors, it's impossible to say who's really behind Key Questions' last-minute ad blitz.
"Don't vote for a wolf in sheep's clothing," the narrator says in one of the ads as a sheep with Wolf's face bleats the word "taxes."
Like all super PACs — outside groups allowed to take unlimited amounts of money from individuals, corporations and unions — Key Questions must disclose its donors.
But last week, Key Questions told the Federal Election Commission it had just one, a social welfare nonprofit called Let Freedom Ring. Since social welfare nonprofits — sometimes called dark money groups — aren't required to identify their donors, it's impossible to say who's really behind Key Questions' last-minute ad blitz.
Charming.
