Pennsylvania Republican Jim Bognet, running in the Keystone State’s Eighth Congressional District, slammed his “slippery and corrupt” opponent, Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright, on Breitbart News Saturday, for taking tens of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and corporate PACs with connections to Saudi Arabia.
Iowa Democrat Senate hopeful Mike Franken has taken money to help fund his campaign from multiple PACs that take in corporate contributions despite having a self-imposed pledge not to take in “one dime of corporate PAC money.”
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who will be in a brutal reelection campaign and has sworn off corporate PAC money, reportedly found a way to accept corporate campaign cash without going back on his word.
Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) has reportedly brought in nearly $200,000 of donations from corporate PACs since dropping her pledge not to be bought off from corporations at the end of 2020.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who helped block sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, received campaign donations from corporate PACs affiliated with two of the European companies that helped fund the pipeline, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.
Iowa’s only remaining congressional Democrat, Rep. Cindy Axne, reportedly took campaign contributions from corporate executives, donors in the financial world, and PACs after pledging not to.
Bernie Moreno, who is running as a Republican to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), raised over one million dollars in his first month campaigning.
