๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ง ๐๐ง๐ก๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
Th๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ-๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ข๐ฅ
A quick update on the astonishing amount of money the right-wing conservative PAC has already poured into the Chico City Council election. So far they have spent well over $237,000. Why does this matter?
During the last Chico City Council election, the largest PAC, also conservative, spent approximately $36,000 during the whole election cycle. Given that candidates for city council cannot accept individual donations over $500, this money can have an incredible impact on fair elections, and the spending as of now is over 3 times the entire amount spent supporting all candidates in the previous election.
Heck, they have now spent twice as much on one candidate, Kami Denlay (including what they spent in hit pieces against her opposition), than was spent by a PAC on all candidates in the 2018 election, and the PAC still has money in their coffers to influence the outcome of this election.
๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ-๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ:
They have spent $47,541 promoting Kami Denlay
They have spent $22,641 promoting Deepika Tandon
They have spent $27,734 promoting Andrew Coolidge
They have spent $5,271 promoting Sean Morgan
๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ :
They have spent $14,909 on hit pieces about Ann Schwab
They have spent $10,694 on hit pieces about Randall Stone
They have spent $8,093 on hit pieces about Rich Ober
They have spent $8,541 on hit pieces about Lauren Kohler
They have spent $6,255 on fake โsupportโ mailers for Steven Breedlove, with the intention of diluting progressive votes in District 3. Their latest filing now shows him as โOppose.โ This after they filed as โSupportโ previously.
This is in addition to the tens of thousands dollars they spent promoting the PAC itself in the past year and paying outside political consultants to plan strategy, which doesnโt have to be itemized in the same way.
You can review their filings here.
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