Walmart scion, Linkedin founder, Pa.'s richest man and more are all putting their thumbs on the scale - at least indirectly - in the race between U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and former newscaster Janelle Stelson as part of the larger battle for majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
From a scion of Walmart’s founding family to Pennsylvania’s wealthiest man, everybody’s got an opinion about Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District.A sweep of recent campaign finance filings conducted by a group of Syracuse University journalism students for and with PennLive showed that total spending in the political cage-match between incumbent U.S. Rep. Scott Perry and former newscaster Janelle Stelson has crashed through the $10 million barrier.
But the level of outside investment has become super-charged by two factors: Perry’s raised national profile as the former leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus; and the relative bargain rates for air-time in a media market that’s not, say, Philadelphia.Peel back the layers of this year’s reports, and you’ve got - if not Taylor Swift - several of America’s major political influencers desperately vying for your attention in Hershey, York and Carlisle.
And one of Win It Back’s top beneficiaries this fall?: Scott Perry, as the group has channeled nearly $1.5 million into an advertising campaign opposing Stelson.Overall, in fact, outside money coming in to support Stelson this year topped $3 million as of the end of August, outpacing the $2.7 million flowing in for Perry.James and Kathryn Murdoch, who emerged as a power couple in Democratic campaign finance circles in 2020 after James, a son of News Corp.
WelcomePAC has been at work since last fall through its support of “Republicans Against Perry,” a messaging group that has put up billboards and digital ads stressing Perry’s support for Trump’s 2020 election subversion efforts and, as they see it, willingness to prioritize politics over governing. There’s Perry, in a garage, talking frankly about how he wasn’t sent to Washington to make friends, but to fight for the interests of his constituents. For much of his career, that has meant trying to contain what he sees as runaway federal spending.an insensitive remark from her anchor desk about eating cats
A pro-Stelson attack ad states Perry has been under investigation for election subversion. There is no proof of that: Yes,Still, the numbers are amazing. 3) The top Republican spender is the Eighteen Fifty-Four Fund. Bankrolling current Speaker Johnson’s lifeline to Perry, it has committed as much as $2,125,000 to the race.Aside from broadcast advertising, the finance reports show lesser, but still significant amounts, being spent on ad production; digital, radio and cable television ads; mailers; polling and paid campaign staff.
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