Democrat’s National Dark Money Machine Dominates PA Elections
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Matthew Brouillette
Real Clear Wire
In 2015, unions, trial lawyers, and so-called dark-money groups that don’t disclose donors spent more than $13 million, compared with Republicans $4.3 million, to win three open seats on Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court. In 2023, a similar lineup of special interest Democratic donors spent more than that amount to win just one open seat on the high court.
While Republican candidate Carolyn Carluccio garnered nearly double the funding of the 2015 GOP candidates (and my organization, Commonwealth Leaders Fund, heavily supported her), it didn’t come anywhere close to the backing that Democrat Dan McCaffery received from national interest groups,
