Posted on 06/11/2022 4:20:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
DES MOINES — Three political advocacy organizations spent a combined total of more than $636,000 on Republican statehouse primary campaigns in this past week’s elections in Iowa, state campaign finance records show.
And those groups — Americans for Prosperity, the American Federation for Children and The Family Leader — got plenty of bang for their buck: The candidates the groups supported won 14 of the 17 statehouse primary campaigns that the groups invested in, and a 15th candidate leads in a campaign that was decided by a mere two votes after the preliminary count.
That batch of victorious Republican primary candidates who were bolstered by the groups’ money includes non-incumbent challengers who ousted three sitting Iowa House Republicans: Reps. Dustin Hite of New Sharon, Jon Thorup of Knoxville and Dennis Bush of Cherokee.
That spending went toward digital campaign ads, mailed campaign ads and door-knocking efforts, according to state campaign finance records.
Several key issues were at play in those races, according to the campaign materials that the advocacy groups produced: taxpayer funding for private school tuition, a ban on transgender girls in girls athletics and limits on requirements for the COVID-19 vaccine and other vaccines.
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Good. These are conservative groups.
All told, Americans for Prosperity spent nearly $300,000 on the Republican legislative primaries, the American Federation for Children spent nearly $257,000 and The Family Leader spent more than $80,000, according to state records.
Many of the Republican primary winners will face Democratic opponents in Iowa’s general election on Nov. 8.
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