Anonymous ID: 07e005 Feb. 20, 2019, 8:33 p.m. No.5297210   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Where Do Your Campaign Contributions Actually Go?

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2012/03/Where-Do-Your-Campaign-Contributions-Actually-Go

 

ProPublica, the peerless, Pulitzer-winning nonprofit investigative journalism Web site, has published a remarkable chart tracing what happens to individual and corporate donations to presidential campaigns and Super PACs. It identifies the marketers, consultancies, and advertising agencies those funds are used to employ. Major beneficiaries include Mentzer Media Services, Inc. (more than $25 million from super PACs), hired hand of American Crossroads and the pro–Mitt Romney Restore Our Future; American Rambler Productions, LLC (more than $18 million from campaigns), a firm co-headed by Eric “Etch A Sketch” Ferhnstrom; and Bully Pulpit Interactive LLC (more than $12 million from campaigns), the online advertiser of the Democratic National Committee and the 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama election efforts.

 

Click the rectangles on the left to see who’s raising what, and the rectangles on the right to see who’s receiving what. And after, refresh yourself on Citizens United for a reminder of why, contra to common sense, much of this is legal.