Moderate GOP PAC Spent Only $700,000 of $1.8 Million Raised Helping Republican Candidates

The Republican Legislative Victory Fund (RLVF), a PAC supporting moderate Republicans, posted its end-of-year campaign finance report recently, and of $1.8 million raised, only about $700,000 was spent on independent expenditures (IEs) to support candidates. Almost all of that was spent during the last 15 days of the general election, which Arizona Free Enterprise Club President Scot Mussi told The Arizona Sun Times was well after many of the strongest attacks came against Republican candidates in September.

“We keep hearing that the 2022 Victory Fund is taking credit for ‘saving’ the majorities at the legislature,” Mussi said. “If anything, their actions contributed to our slim majorities by wasting most of the money on overhead. They didn’t even help Michelle Pena in LD 23, which if she didn’t win we wouldn’t even have a majority in the House.”

Pena’s race was close, defeating a third candidate for one of the two-state representative slots in District 23 by 3,077 votes. Camelback Strategy Group (CSG) is a consulting firm long associated with the John McCain family, which has ties to many progressive organizations and causes. The email address on file for RLVF is an email address from CSG.

CSG took credit for keeping majorities in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature on Nov. 14, 2022. “Outspent by nearly a 6 to 1 margin, RLVF targeted key legislative districts across AZ to successfully win Republican Majorities in the AZ House and Senate,” CSG tweeted.

Read the rest of the article at The Arizona Sun Times

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