“Wealthy GOP Bankrollers are Funneling Record Cash” to Help Republican Larry Hogan “Flip” Control of the Senate [Washington Post]

Larry Hogan’s super PAC is bankrolled by GOP mega-donors spending millions in key Senate races to elect Republicans

Republican Larry Hogan’s super PAC, Maryland’s Future, is heavily bankrolled by GOP mega-donors seeking to flip control of the Senate, the Washington Post reports. 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT.

Washington Post: The Donors Shelling out Big Money in Md.’s Critical U.S. Senate Race

By Katie Shepherd

September 29, 2024

• Maryland’s Future, a deep-pocketed super PAC backing Hogan… entered the late-summer sprint toward Election Day with nearly $16 million in the bank from conservative donors as of June 30. 
• The group was seeded with a $10 million donation from Kenneth C. Griffin, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has eschewed donating to Donald Trump and emerged as one of the top GOP donors nationally in the 2024 election cycle. 
• About two dozen other GOP donors had collectively given nearly $6 million more to the PAC by June 30. The total raised by the group will grow by the time the campaigns and PACs are due to file new campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission in mid-October.
• Many of those donors have also been funneling cash into competitive races in other states, including the Senate races most likely to tip the balance of power in Congress in Republicans’ favor.

Kenneth Griffin

• The billionaire CEO of Citadel LLC is one of the biggest conservative political donors in the 2024 election cycle. He has donated $75.7 million to conservative political organizations, including the $10 million to Maryland’s Future.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

• [Schwarzman] and his wife Christine have donated $20.5 million this cycle… [including] giving $2 million to Maryland’s Future.

Craig J. Duchossois

• He gave $1 million to Maryland’s Future and $20,000 to the John Bolton PAC, which has financed ads opposing Alsobrooks.

Other Major Donors

• Harlan Crow, the real estate magnate and Texas billionaire who paid for lavish vacations with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, gave $150,000 to Maryland’s Future and $25,000 to the John Bolton PAC backing Hogan. 
• H. Ross Perot Jr. contributed $100,000 to Maryland’s Future.
• Trevor Rees-Jones, who founded Chief Oil & Gas, and his wife Jan Rees-Jones each donated $96,916 to Maryland’s Future.
• Thomas McInerney gave $50,000 to Maryland’s Future, $450,000 to John Bolton PAC.

See also: MSNBC: Larry Hogan’s ‘Independent’ Pitch Comes with an Asterisk in Maryland

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