Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Even when you don't want them
Like fleas and kids, SuperPACs will show up. And one of the more successful candidates to renounce SuperPAC money, Beto O'Rourke has found that his disapproval is not enough to discourage a wealthy supporter from starting one in his favor.
A Texas Democratic donor is raising money for a super PAC to help Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke — against the wishes of the candidate, who has asked super PACs to stay out of the race.You can pick your friends but you can't stop others from saying they like you.
Dallas lawyer Marc Stanley told the Star-Telegram Tuesday that his group is gearing up to try to unseat Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, following a Quinnipiac University poll this month that showed the race in a statistical dead heat.
Stanley said the poll, combined with a private survey his group commissioned in February, “shows the time is right” to unseat Cruz.
O’Rourke, a champion of campaign finance reform, has asked PACs to stay out of his race against Cruz. He’s raised $13.2 million for that contest, to Cruz’s roughly $12.6 million.
“I’m not listening to what Beto O’Rourke says, I’m doing what I think is right for Texas,” said Stanley, who chaired former Texas Gov. Ann Richards’s campaign in 1990 in Dallas County.
FTC PAC — short for Fire Ted Cruz — was registered with the Federal Election Commission in July, but formally launched its website last week.
O’Rourke says he wants to fund his campaign with mostly Texas money, and said 70 percent of the money he’s raised came from inside the state.
Stanley is interested in tapping into a national donor base to unseat Cruz.
“Ted Cruz is disliked not only by colleagues by millions of Americans and tens of thousands of Texans,” said Stanley. "We want to give [them] an opportunity to participate."
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