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FEC to Heller: Your donation to Senate candidate may be illegal
Sen. Dean Heller wants to be the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, as Politico has reported. Pro tip: Don't give potentially illegal contributions to Senate candidates if you want to be NRSC chair. And the Federal Election Commission says Heller may have done just that with a June donation to Oregon hopeful Monica Wehby. Seems he gave Wehby a donation for the primary....after the election occurred. I'm sure it was just a clerical error, right?
Crossroads ad ties Horsford to you-know-who
American Crossroads GPS, seeing those early voting numbers heavily favoring Republicans, is dropping a $1 million bomb on Rep. Steven Horsford.
GOP slate card snubs friend of Adelson
GOP leaders have sent out a slate card that inlcudes a judge running against a friend of Sheldon Adelson, causing the Sands boss to cut off the county party as he has cut off the state. "No money anymore for the Clark County GOP from us," Adelson political point man Andy Abboud told me after Clark County Chairman Dave McKeon put Susan Bush, running against Adelson pal Ron Israel, on the slate card, which is sttached here. Adelson had given the ocunty party $30,000, hoping it could be comepetent where the state party has been a joke.
New pro-TEI spot goes right after Sunrise CEO
It may be too little, too late. But this spot is one of the best of the year.
MY COLUMN: The Great Margin Tax Dilemma
I want to vote against the margin tax. I really do. I recoil at the idea of making serious tax policy at the ballot box. The tax is not written well – it has a fiscal cliff, the rate is too high. And I do not want to lose my faith in the Legislature to do its job, as hard as the Gang of 63 tries to make me do so. I have many reasons to vote against it. But I just may vote for it. Why?
Reality Checks: A B-minus for ad hitting Becky Harris and a C-minus for Bilbray's hit on Heck
Elon Musk company gave to lawmakers, governor right before and after Tesla special session
Tesla Chairman Elon Musk's other company doing business in Nevada gave nearly $40,000 to lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval right before the special session that ratified the gigafactory deal and shortly after the 15-day post-session fundraising blackout period ended. The largest donation from Solar City was a $7,000 thank you to Sandoval right after the blackout period ended, but the company also gave to key lawmakers and partisan caucus PACs, including in the days before the session started.
Ross Miller, Democratic AGs go up with similar ads torching Adam Laxalt
These will leave a mark.