Secret donors paid for $5M in ads for North Carolina senator

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JULIE BYKOWICZ and GARY D. ROBERTSON

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly $5 million in advertising to help elect Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis in last year's midterm elections came from a group that does not have to disclose its donors.

That's according to tax filings made public on Tuesday by Crossroads GPS. That group was co-founded by Karl Rove, a strategist for former President George W. Bush.

The filings show that Crossroads gave $4.8 million to Carolina Rising, another nonprofit. That grant made up almost its entire budget.

In turn, Carolina Rising spent nearly every penny of that money on pro-Tillis television ads.

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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/616c94db59774eff9f4bedfd35c05031/secret-donors-paid-5m-ads-north-carolina-senator

[Kingofalldems]

1. Rove again.

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2. It's hard to keep old Turdblossom from floating to the top of the bowl. (eom)

[hibbing]

3. You can flush and flush and flush n/t

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4. Citizens United again...