“Newly elected members of Congress benefited from millions of dollars indirectly tied to party leaders in Washington. But much of that money was spent on ads that appeared to be from local groups,” Roll Call reports.
“The tactic is legal, thanks to campaign finance laws that have not been updated since the dawn of the digital age and Supreme Court rulings that have struck down limits on money in politics. But such strategies, laid out in the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center’s Dodging Disclosure report, represent the acceleration of ‘big money trends’ that have given deep-pocketed groups outsize influence over elections and made the 2018 midterms the most expensive in American history.”
