DC Far-Right Corporate Money Group Swoops in To Save Their Man
Insurance Commissioner Matt Rosendale knows no limits – campaign finance limits, that is – when it comes to his desperate campaigns to return home to Maryland.
During his failed 2018 Senate run, Maryland Matt bypassed campaign finance laws by using accounting schemes to receive individual contributions well beyond the allowable limits. Maryland Matt asked 2018 contributors who had hit their max to help pay down his 2014 debt in another failed Congressional bid. The day after paying himself back his 2014 loans, he lent his 2018 Senate campaign the exact same amount of money.
Maryland Matt has even skirted campaign coordination laws and worked to orchestrate support from his dark money friends. In 2018, leaked audio caught him admitting that he spoke to the NRA’s top political strategist about a $400,000 independent expenditure in Montana.
During Maryland Matt Rosendale’s time in the Montana Legislature, he consistently voted against reducing the influence of money in politics:
- Rosendale casted the deciding vote to increase Montana’s campaign contribution limits.
- Rosendale voted against requiring dark money groups disclose their donors and spending.
No wonder, Maryland Matt Rosendale is getting bailed out by his friends at the D.C. dark money arm of the corporate GOP and getting himself a multi-million dollar lifeline from Club for Growth.
Statement from DCCC Spokesperson Andy Orellana:
“Another campaign, another week where Maryland Matt Rosendale’s campaign is coddled by his corporate donors in DC. Clearly, Maryland Matt will do anything – including potentially breaking laws he opposes – to get back home to the swamp so he can push his anti-good government, anti-public lands and anti-healthcare agenda in Congress.”
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