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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:01 AM Jul 2015

Right to Rise...

Jeb did a sneaking one-rising money-&-and coordinating with this Pac before he officially announced. Now it seems -according to his article an attach ad had been made against. I have not seen it. (Probably in early primary states--just guessing). Scott Walker is raising lots of $$$ also as I type. He finally announced he would get in next Monday-July 13. Spending this amount of money on elections is obscene (all strips).


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/jeb-bush-super-pac-right-to-rise-100-million
—By Russ Choma


Thu Jul. 9, 2015 3:37 PM EDT


Right to Rise,
the super-PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush, reported raising $103 million in the first six months of this year. It's a record haul for a super-PAC and more than almost every presidential candidate has ever raised for their primary campaigns. .........



......From January until his official declaration last month, Bush worked closely with Right to Rise—something he could not legally do as an official candidate—attending fundraising events and drumming up support among major donors. Bush's involvement with the super-PAC led some election watchdogs to cry foul, but it's unlikely the Federal Election Commission will press the matter any time soon.

In a conference call with top donors that a BuzzFeed reporter listened in on last month, a top super-PAC official said the outfit planned to run a positive campaign in support of Bush. The group's first online video pitched the group as a completely transparent organization devoted to showing "Jeb's heart." Late last night, Right to Rise reported its first official spending on the presidential race—$47,000 on attack ads accusing Hillary Clinton of not being transparent.

Who are the Bush backers that filled Right to Rise's coffers? We'll have to wait until week, when Right to Rise and the other presidential super-PACs will have to file with the Federal Election Commission and disclose their donors.

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