Posted on 11/17/2025 4:45:58 PM PST by T Ruth
A dark-money operation is targeting the special election for former Republican Tennessee Rep. Mark Green’s seat, using a spoiler strategy to sway the race, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller.
The effort to boost the independent candidate in Tennessee’s 7th District is being led by the “Democratic/Liberal” PAC, Your Community. On Oct. 31, the PAC quietly released a poll showing Republican Matt Van Epps leading [the Democrat candidate] by eight points ahead of the Dec. 2 special election to replace Green.
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Following the release of the poll, the group — connected to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, whose donors include nonprofits tied to billionaire George Soros, and the North Fund — began distributing mailers in the district to boost [an] Independent candidate ... who withdrew from the GOP primary to run without a party label, as shown in photos obtained by the Caller.
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Roughly 85% of the PACs’ 2024 cycle spending went to support Democrats, while the remaining 15% was spent opposing Republicans, according to OpenSecrets records.Both funds are part of the Arabella Advisors network, which The Atlantic labeled the “mothership” of Democratic dark money, funneling hundreds of millions in anonymous donations into elections nationwide.
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Van Epps, who served as Tennessee’s commissioner of General Services until June, emerged from a crowded GOP primary with ten opponents. He is the only candidate to secure President Donald Trump’s endorsement, adding to early backing from Green and Republicans Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, according to an NBC News report.
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I would use the word DARK with most everything from the Left.
Dark money is pouring in from both sides, as it does for every election nowadays.
it’s a waste of money. No way does Van Epps lose.
Van Epps will win big. I voted Friday.
Fuggin’ communist are buying the government and Americans are dumb enough to let them do it.
How does one dirty up dirtier?
It’s Soros, Boo-Boo...
Which no one is talking about except the Left.
Will we let them slip into the back door yet again?
When is that Godless pimp going to croak?!
His son, Alex, is learning to do the dirty work……they need to kick them out of the US and confiscate their bank accounts.
It’s like picking up a turd from the clean end, only different.
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