Dear Lucas,
What has four arms and loves attack ads? Karl Rove’s growing network of outside interest groups.
That’s right. The right-wing mastermind has doubled his outside spending empire. Or, as National Journal put it: “Karl Rove's Crossroads Empire Adds a New Senate Defense Arm... A new secret-money nonprofit branch will focus on defending the GOP majority.”
Now, we only know two things for certain. One -- this monster of a network is already spending millions to influence the 2016 elections.
And two -- if our MVPs are going to be able to fight off even more Rove-linked attacks, they’re going to need us.
Can you chip in $5 or $10 right now?
Rove’s groups spent $300 million in the last presidential election and $47.8 million in last year’s midterm elections. Apparently that wasn’t enough, so he has grown his reach -- and one of the new Rove groups is already spending $2 million on ads.
Since Citizens United came out, we knew outside spending in elections was going to be bad. Awful, in fact. But with this new Rove expansion added to the Koch behemoth, I think we’re about to see a whole new level of “bad.”
We have to show up for our MVPs -- help them fight all this outside spending with some seriously strong grassroots support. And we need to start right now.
Contribute $5 or whatever makes sense for you to help strengthen their grassroots efforts.
Thank you for standing with our MVPs.
Al
P.S. If Karl Rove doubles the number of outside groups running ads we have to double our grassroots efforts to fight back. Please donate $5 or $10 today.