Daily News | GOP mega-donor Jeffrey Yass joins Philly developers to sway City Council race
Campaign finance reports filed this week with the city show that the Yass-funded Commonwealth Children’s Choice Fund contributed $400,000 to Philly for Growth, an independent-expenditure group financed by development interests that are uniting behind a slate of Democrats they view as business-friendly after years ofBetter known as super PACs, independent-expenditure groups can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they don’t coordinate with candidates or campaigns.
With the Commonwealth contribution, Philly for Growth has raised more than $1.8 million to date and has already outspent every individual campaign in the race several times over. In the last two weeks, the group has spent more than $430,000 on cable TV ads to boost its slate of candidates — the only such ads in a race where few campaigns can afford air time.
But the Yass element has put some of Philly for Growth’s endorsed candidates in a bind with their more progressive supporters, who are staunch charter school critics and say Yass poses an existential threat to public education. “[Yass] has time and time again tried to play politics in Philadelphia to push forward his right-wing agenda that pads his bottom line, and it’s no surprise that he’s pushing his interests with a similarly aligned corporate Realtor PAC,” said Arielle Klagsbrun, a coordinator with the Tax the Rich PHL.
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