NASHVILLE — A political fundraising group with ties to GOP strategist Karl Rove has plunked down $272,100 as Republican groups increasingly coalesce around efforts to defeat U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District.
Federal Election Commission filings show Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies spent $9,500 on ad production and is spending another $262,600 to air ads opposing Davis, who faces Republican Scott DesJarlais of Jasper in Tuesday’s general election.
Crossroads, organized under tax laws as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, does not have to disclose who gives it money. Rove has acknowledged that he advises and fundraises for the group.
Speaking at a Democratic rally Tuesday night in Warren County, Davis lashed out at groups leaping into the contest with independent expenditures and attacking him, accusing them of peddling lies to voters.
“And we have Karl Rove and his group coming in. Nobody knows where the money comes from,” Davis said, warning of direct, secret contributions from “Corporate America” and “wealthy entrepreneurs.”
Earlier this month, two watchdog groups, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, fired off a letter to the Internal Revenue Service, requesting it investigate whether Crossroads GPS was violating U.S. tax requirements regarding nonprofit groups by its involvement in elections.
Andy Sher is a Nashville-based staff writer covering Tennessee state government and politics for the Times Free Press. A Washington correspondent from 1999-2005 for the Times Free Press, Andy previously headed up state Capitol coverage for The Chattanooga Times, worked as a state Capitol reporter for The Nashville Banner and was a contributor to The Tennessee Journal, among other publications. Andy worked for 17 years at The Chattanooga Times covering police, health care, county government, ...
Karl Rove is an evil genius. How is he not in jail? Oh, yeah, Presidential pardon from W.
Rove and his bunch obviously ain't from around here, otherwise they would know the folks in this district don't think much about outsiders who try to buy their votes.
Now that Big Business can pour as much cash as they want, to buy political favors, without identifying the golden goose, one can see why the average working person is disgusted with the entire political process. Spending for the mid-term elections has topped 2 Billion dollars. Neither major party can function without sinful amounts of money. We are in the era of perpetual campaigning. There are no leaders willing to think beyond their next election. Americas' problems will not be solved by "taking our country back" or "moving our country forward". Our Reps in D.C. are petty cowards afraid to address the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
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