Kate Marshall Cash Advantage Slashed By National Republican Intervention
There’s a congressional election coming up soon – not in 2012, but in just a little over two weeks. In Nevada’s 2nd district on September 12, voters will choose a replacement for Dean Heller, who left the seat when he was appointed to Nevada’s junior U.S. Senate seat.
Not long ago, Democratic Party candidate Kate Marshall bragged about her superior fundraising, saying that she had raised $100,000 more than her Republican opponent, Mark Amodei. Yesterday, however, that advantage was seriously diminished as a result of the spending of just one organization.
The National Republican Congressional Committee made a single independent expenditure of $59,959 yesterday, paying “National Media Research, Planning and Placement” for unspecified “media” services in opposition to the Kate Marshall for Congress campaign. One more independent expenditure like that, and Kate Marshall’s fundraising advantage will be wiped out.
There haven’t been any independent expenditures to come to the rescue of Kate Marshall. Corporations seem to be solidly on the side of Mark Amodei.
About two thirds of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s income is from political action committees, rather than individuals, and then, many of the individuals who give money to the National Republican Congressional Committee are corporate executives and lobbyists. These financial elites are coming from outside Nevada to interfere in the 2nd district’s congressional election because they have the money to do it, and nobody has the power to stop them…
… unless the voters of Nevada’s 2nd district have the integrity to make up their minds about who to vote for in the upcoming special election by doing their own independent research about the candidates and the issues, instead of simply relying on large media campaigns for information.
