Republican super PAC American Crossroads misidentified its second-largest donor last month in paperwork filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
The group, co-founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove, listed the Glenmede Trust Company as giving it $300,000 on Aug. 29, part of the $1.7 million American Crossroads raised in August.
Sadly for Karl Rove's super PAC the Glenmede Trust quickly denied making any such contribution, and even contacted American Crossroads to have them change the paperwork.
Which they did:
Several hours later, however, American Crossroads filed an amended report to the FEC that now identifies the $300,000 as coming from Thomas and Sandra Sullivan, the parents of U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan of Alaska. Lindsay confirmed the super PAC changed its report but declined additional comment.
Wait, what? But..but aren't American Crossroads like the BIGGEST donor supporting Dan Sullivan's campaign right now?
And doesn't that kind of mean that Sullivan's parents are essentially financing his campaign to the tune of $300,000 in donations?
Why yes, yes it does.
American Crossroads says it has spent more than $1.3 million in Alaska's U.S. Senate race and reportedly plans to spend $5.5 million in the race.
Must be nice, thanks to the Citizens United case, to have parents with hundreds of thousands to spend on your campaign, and deep pocketed supporters from all over the country, almost exclusively outside of Alaska, willing to donate many more millions to help you win in a state where you are a relative newcomer.
Have I mentioned that Senator Begich's father died quite a number of years back?
Yeah he died while serving Alaskans as their last Democratic Congressman, in a very suspicious plane accident. After which the seat has been continually held by Republican Don Young, a man who could not beat Nick Begich in an actual election.
So sadly Mark Begich does not have parents with loads of money, and a SuperPAC willing to funnel it to him on their behalf.
All he has is integrity, and a desire to do the work for the people of Alaska that his father's untimely death interrupted.
