‘Dark money’ group puts up $1 million to attack Malloy ( Oct 26, 2014 )

The money is poison, always present...you're all seeing a lot of negative ads, too?

A new player entered Connecticut's race for governor over the weekend as a "dark money" group from Ohio contributed $1.17 million to Grow Connecticut, the super PAC behind a $6.7 million advertising campaign to defeat Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

The money came from A Public Voice, Inc., which is based at the West Chester, Ohio office of David R. Langdon, a lawyer who has represented a network of conservative non-profit groups in a legal fight with the IRS over their tax-exempt status and is active opposing gay marriage, among other causes.

Grow Connecticut, which is allied with the Republican Governors Association, immediately used the contribution to purchase nearly $1 million of television advertising attacking Malloy, the first-term Democrat locked in a close race with Republican Tom Foley.

The dark-money contribution, so named for the inability to readily trace its sources, is the biggest in Connecticut's race for governor. There is plenty of big money flowing into the race, but it has come from groups whose donors are publicly disclosed either to the IRS or Federal Election Commission.

http://ctmirror.org/dark-money-group-puts-up-1-million-to-attack-malloy/