Arkansas Republicans voted down Gov. Sarah Sanders' $750 million mega-prison five times. She recruited primary challengers against the ones who stopped her, and lost every Senate primary she got into. Now the oil-and-gas worker who helped lead the opposition is on her November ballot.
Spectrum News reviewed 12 years of disclosures: Whatley's firm took $3.5 million, including $1.2 million from energy clients. His campaign bio skips the entire career.
A 2002 Ohio law Husted cosponsored cut the deadline for suing a nursing home in half and barred state inspection reports from the courtroom. He has since taken more than $1 million from the industry.
Six days before the primary, Trump posted fresh endorsements for nearly every Florida Republican on the ballot — and left Mills out. Two of Mills's own GOP colleagues are backing his challenger. He has under $70,000 in the bank and no ads booked.
Justin Salsburey pleaded guilty August 13 to a fentanyl and meth conspiracy run out of a Bellefontaine house. Ramaswamy's campaign kept paying his security firm for three weeks after the arrest — including $2,000 four days after publicly cutting ties.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought a discarded Alzheimer's drug for $5 million, put his mother on the payroll to reanalyze the failed trial data, and raised $315 million. Twenty days before the drug failed again, SoftBank put $1.1 billion of new equity into the parent company. A California teachers' pension fund lost more than $1 million.
On July 22 the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act. It's still sitting in the Senate. Max Miller traded that same day. Michael Rulli and Kevin Hern were still trading in August.
FCC records list the WTWO purchase order as "IN-08 Franking" — taxpayer money. The 30-second spot touts his border votes and Trump's budget bill, runs 84 times, and stops on September 2, exactly 62 days before Election Day.
POLITICO asked all 16 whether they'd return money from a congressman accused of assaulting his ex-wife and their young child. Brad Finstad returned $5,000. Mike Lawler said no. The other 14 wouldn't say.
