Super PAC ad targets Pete DeFazio

[jct74]

Don't know how big of an ad buy this is, I can't find any other information on it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8z3cNqiIks

 

[tsai3904]

It's either for $109,700 or this tv plus another radio ad combined is for $109,700.

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00496349/812895/se

 

[Michigan11]

Nice! I'm feeling this is the race to watch on election night... Art gets in thats another RP candidate amongst a handful of others. In 08', how many did we have? 1

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C00496349&cycle=2012

 

[jct74]

Super PAC backs Robinson in final weeks of election

By Daniel Simmons-Ritchie
September 7, 2012

With less than three weeks until ballots are mailed, an Indiana group has spent $220,000 to support Art Robinson's election bid against Democrat congressman Peter DeFazio.

On Wednesday, Republican Super PAC Inc spent $109,700 on radio advertisements and $109,700 on television commercials in support of Robinson, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.

The spend-up may herald the start of an aggressive push by outside groups in the closing weeks of Oregon's Fourth District race. Before Wednesday, Republican Super PAC Inc had spent only $29,280 on radio ads in support of Robinson in July and August.

Despite the name, Republican Super PAC Inc is an independent group with no official ties to Robinson or the Republican Party. The group's treasurer is James Bopp, an Indiana attorney and anti-abortion activist.

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http://theworldlink.com/news/local/...cle_3d0b970e-1091-11e2-8719-0019bb2963f4.html

 

[Bastiat's The Law]

Hopefully other groups will jump in big now.

 

[tsai3904]

The Super PAC is mostly funded by Robert Mercer, a huge hedge fund CEO. He's the same guy who spent almost $600k in 2010 to help Art and is a long-time subscriber to his monthly science newsletter.

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00496349/813636/sa/ALL

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

Donor profile: Robert Mercer

Total contributions to super PACs (includes family members), $3.2 million*

$1 million to American Crossroads (pro-Republican)
$1 million to Restore Our Future, Inc. pro-Mitt Romney)
$615,000 to Club for Growth Action (conservative)
$500,000 to Prosperity First Inc. (unknown)
$50,000 to Coalition for American Values PAC (unknown)

Federal hard money and 527 contributions:

$30,800 to Republican National Committee (2012)
$30,400 to National Republican Senatorial Committee
$25,000 to Club for Growth PAC (2007-2011)
$20,000 to Republican Leadership Committee (2011)
$10,000 to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)
$7,200 to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
$5,000 to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
$4,800 to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
$1,700 to former Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s presidential campaign in 2007

State contributions:

Mercer donated more than $50,000 to New York Republican Rick Lazio’s unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign in the 2010 cycle and $14,000 to his running mate, Greg Edwards. He also gave $10,000 to Republican Kenneth Blackwell’s failed 2006 gubernatorial bid in Ohio.

Corporate name: Renaissance Technologies Corp.

Total spent on lobbying (2007-2012): $1.3 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Lobbying issues: Securities and investments, treatment of taxation of capital gains, carried interest, tax issues affecting hedge funds and the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, according to federal lobbying records.

Family: Daughter, Rebekah Mercer

Biography:

Robert Mercer, 65, is co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, LLC, a $15 billion hedge fund. The IBM language recognition whiz-turned-financier brought home $125 million in 2011, making him the 16th highest-earning hedge fund manager, according to Forbes.

Renaissance Technologies is based in New York City, with additional locations in London and East Setauket, NY, where Mercer lives. Bloomberg ranked Renaissance Institutional Futures — one of the firm’s top funds — as the 26th top performing large hedge fund in 2011.

The firm has 275 employees, many of whom have given large amounts of money to both Republican and Democratic groups, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Mercer’s 2011 earnings were trumped by those of James Simon, Renaissance’s founder and current chairman. Simon — a financial supporter of Democratic politics — earned $2.1 billion in 2011, though he officially retired from Renaissance the previous year, according to Forbes.

Mercer is the most prolific of Renaissance donors. In July, he gave $1 million to the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future and another $1 million to American Crossroads, the super PAC founded by conservative operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie.

In April, Mercer gave $500,000 to super PAC Prosperity First, which accounted for nearly 80 percent of the first $635,500 it raised. In early September, Prosperity First made its first independent expenditures, touting Republican House candidate Randy Altschuler in Mercer's home district in eastern Long Island. The super PAC's treasurer is a CPA, its address is a post office box in Fairfax, Va., and little else is known of its political intentions.

Last updated: Sept. 28, 2012

*2011-2012 election cycle; source, Federal Election Commission.

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

I sent emails to Citizens United and Liberty for All requesting help in the race.

 

[Hyperion]

Outstanding. I really want Art in congress. Someone who can speak with authority against the global warming alarmists/profiteers would be amazing.

 

[jct74]

DeFazio fires back at super PAC

By Daniel Simmons-Ritchie
October 10, 2012 11:00 am

Facing an onslaught of attack ads from a conservative group in Indiana, Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, hit back Monday, branding their progenitor as a “right wing extremist” who is trying to deregulate the campaign finance system.

In the final month in the battle for Oregon’s Fourth District, Republican Super PAC Inc. has purchased $109,000 of commercials on three Eugene TV stations in support of DeFazio’s republican challenger, Art Robinson.

The ads, set to scowling close-ups of DeFazio, say the 25-year incumbent has increased the national debt and voted against tax reductions for local businesses. “DeFazio believes only in big government,” a woman narrator concludes, “why doesn’t he believe in us?”

DeFazio mocked the commercials as a distortion of his record, but aimed the brunt of his criticism at the motives of Republic Super PAC Inc’s treasurer, attorney James Bopp Jr.

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sidebar to the article also says the numbers in the article a few posts up are incorrect

An article on Monday incorrectly stated that Republican Super PAC Inc had purchased nearly $220,000 of radio and television advertising in support of Robinson.

Republican Super PAC Inc initially reported to the Federal Election Commission that it had purchased $109,700 of radio advertising. It later amended its filing to say television advertising. The change left the appearance of two filings for $109,700 in the FEC database.