John James took $11,325 from two poultry-industry executives — one whose company settled claims over polluted drinking water and a scheme to suppress poultry workers' wages. As governor, James would pick Michigan's environmental and farm regulators.
People at KKR — co-owner of CyrusOne, which runs a data center campus in Research Triangle Park and is building another near Sanford — gave North Carolina's Republican Senate nominee $27,000, including $5,000 from co-founder Henry Kravis. Whatley says data centers should get tax breaks but not subsidies.
Newsday found that the Long Island Republican is tied for the third-most privately sponsored trips in the House this year: four trips, nearly a month on the road, with a session at Shell, a lunch with Chevron executives and a meeting with Meta along the way.
In the primary, Ken Paxton attacked John Cornyn for running on 'D.C. establishment' money. At a private Washington fundraiser, he admitted D.C. now controls his own message — after Republicans spent $122 million backing him in September, only $1.2 million of it from his own campaign.
In April, Tom Barrett voted against a resolution to end the Iran war, and it failed by one vote. He now runs as a critic of the war, while defense PACs and executives have given his campaign more than $58,000, according to Drop Site News.
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Kevin Hern is already on a glide path to win his Oklahoma Senate race, and a $140 million AI super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir and Big Tech venture capitalists is spending $850,000 to back him anyway.
In December 2019, as his company closed a $3 billion deal, Vivek Ramaswamy bought a $420,000 house in West Chester Township and registered to vote in Ohio. Tax experts told Forbes the timing likely saved him about $12 million. Now he wants to abolish Ohio's capital gains tax.
A Tampa Bay Times analysis found 17 of the 18 billionaires funding Florida's governor race backed Byron Donalds, for $23.3 million — and two-thirds of his $131 million came from donors who gave $10,000 or more.
New filings show Diane Hendricks and Richard and Liz Uihlein bankrolled most of Tom Tiffany's run for Wisconsin governor by routing money through the state Republican Party — a loophole that lets them blow past the $20,000 limit on giving to a candidate.