In the race for Texas 19th Congressional District we still don’t know who is funding the political action committee spending money supporting candidate Michael Bob Starr.
It will be a few days yet before the PAC, formed just after the end-of-year filing discloser deadline, has to publicly disclose where its money is coming from but, the PAC does have to notify the candidate it is supporting of its spending on that person’s behalf.
The Michael Bob Starr campaign has so far filed two independent expenditure reports with the Federal Elections Commission. These two filings represent transactions made in late January and the first few days of February by the PAC. In these two filings the PAC had spent over $63,000 dollars, just in the beginning days of the race, with Anthem Media in Austin for ad production and placement.
To date I’m not aware of any other campaign being funded by the professional PAC-crowd – only Starr, and it seems such is being organized by those connected to the DC-insider crowd infamous for such things as the yacht on the Potomac named Funraiser.
I will not begrudge a campaign for taking help where it can get it but, I will say that it legitimately makes one wonder what it is about the candidate supported that makes the DC-insider crowd so sure the he’s a good investment for their political money.
In most GOP campaigns everyone tries to out-flag-wave and -small-government each other, add border security to the mix at the moment, but its often a candidate’s fundraising and life experience which is more illuminating than what is said in ads and speeches.
PAC spends over $63,000 for Starr early in TX19 race
Robert Pratt
In the race for Texas 19th Congressional District we still don’t know who is funding the political action committee spending money supporting candidate Michael Bob Starr.
It will be a few days yet before the PAC, formed just after the end-of-year filing discloser deadline, has to publicly disclose where its money is coming from but, the PAC does have to notify the candidate it is supporting of its spending on that person’s behalf.
The Michael Bob Starr campaign has so far filed two independent expenditure reports with the Federal Elections Commission. These two filings represent transactions made in late January and the first few days of February by the PAC. In these two filings the PAC had spent over $63,000 dollars, just in the beginning days of the race, with Anthem Media in Austin for ad production and placement.
To date I’m not aware of any other campaign being funded by the professional PAC-crowd – only Starr, and it seems such is being organized by those connected to the DC-insider crowd infamous for such things as the yacht on the Potomac named Funraiser.
I will not begrudge a campaign for taking help where it can get it but, I will say that it legitimately makes one wonder what it is about the candidate supported that makes the DC-insider crowd so sure the he’s a good investment for their political money.
In most GOP campaigns everyone tries to out-flag-wave and -small-government each other, add border security to the mix at the moment, but its often a candidate’s fundraising and life experience which is more illuminating than what is said in ads and speeches.
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Updated: Click for the PAC’s pre-primary report (2/18/2016)