Top Dem Super PAC Gets Big Boost from Soros, Spielberg, Democracy Alliance

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Free Beacon:

The Democratic Party’s top super PAC disclosed more than $9.2 million in September contributions on Monday, listing a who’s who of wealthy liberal donors, many associated with the secretive Democracy Alliance donor network.

 

New York City businessman Ian Cumming—who “was awarded the largest bonus for any CEO of a publicly traded company in New York” in 2012, according to Crain’s—and a company called HFNWA LLC donated $1 million each.

 

It is not entirely clear what that company does, but it appears to be affiliated with Franklin Haney, a Democratic mega-donor who was accused of campaign finance violations in the 1990s.

 

DreamWorks CEO and 3D advocate Jeffrey Katzenberg and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull director Steven Spielberg each gave $250,000 to the Super PAC last month.

 

Big-name Democratic donors also chipped in: billionaire financier George Soros and real estate mogul Herb Sandler, who pioneered an investment model dubbed the “the Typhoid Mary of the mortgage industry,” gave $500,000 each.

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DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE DARK MONEY NETWORK SPENDS MILLIONS FOR UDALL

 

Left-wing groups backed by a secretive liberal donor network have poured large sums into a key U.S. Senate race even as the Democrat in that race decries the corrosive influence of “dark money” in American politics.

 

More than half a dozen organizations supported by the Democracy Alliance—some of which share staff and use the same mailing addresses—have quietly funneled money from undisclosed sources into the U.S. Senate race in Colorado, where incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall is trying to fend off a challenge from Republican Rep. Cory Gardner.

 

Outside groups have spent nearly $45 million on the race, more than four times as much as the candidates themselves, according to the Sunlight Foundation. About $25.6 million has backed Udall or attacked Gardner, while about $19.2 million has supported the challenger or attacked the incumbent.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/democracy-alliance-dark-money-network-spends-millions-for-udall/

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