Texas Democrats blame ‘mind blowing’ GOP dark money for midterm beatdown – By Michael Murney (Houston Chronicle) / Nov 11, 2022
An internal party memo cited huge spending by special interest groups as a factor weighing heavily in conservatives’ favor.
Texas Democrats blamed “mind blowing” amounts of dark money benefitting Republican candidates for losses incurred by their party in the 2022 midterms. These remarks were circulated to party members in an internal memo following Tuesday’s elections, according to The Texas Tribune’s James Barragán.
“On nearly every ballot across the state, there was a race that was fueled by levels of Republican dark money–much of it from outside the state of Texas–impacting voters’ decision-making through multimillion-dollar paid advertising campaigns broadcasting completely nonsensical, bad-faith misinformation about democratic opponents,” Jamarr Brown, Executive Director of the Texas Democratic Party, wrote in the memo.
Nowhere was the dump of Republican funding more pronounced than in Harris County, where conservative political newcomer and relative unknown Alexandra del Moral Mealer raised nearly $9 million from July through October alone. Through big donations from right-wing donors and prominent Houston-area conservatives, Mealer shattered campaign fundraising records on her path to a razor-thin defeat in the Harris County Judge’s race.
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