Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Ahead of Tuesday's GOP presidential primary in Wisconsin, wealthy investor Foster Friess is giving his preferred candidate, Rick Santorum, a boost. This time though, rather than contributing to a pro-Santorum super PAC, he's taking matters into his own hands.
Friess has personally spent $8,675 to help his friend win, including roughly $1,000 each for a radio ad touting the former Pennsylvania senator and a newspaper ad, both in Friess's hometown of Rice Lake, Wis. Citizens have long been free to spend their personal funds directly on independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with candidates' campaigns, but such spending is exceedingly rare. In fact, Friess is just the third individual to make personal independent expenditures this election cycle, according to an iWatch News analysis of filings with the Federal Election Commission. |
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