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28 Jul, 6 tweets, 4 min read
New @ninaturner ad attacking @ShontelMBrown references donations to Brown from top Republicans, including Robert Kraft:
Kraft and the former Cuyahoga County GOP chairman have indeed given to Brown: cleveland.com/open/2021/07/n…
Most of Kraft's direct giving has been to Democrats: fec.gov/data/receipts/…

The NFL's PAC, to which he's contributed big money, is evenly split between the parties: opensecrets.org/political-acti…
He tends to support moderates -- Mark Kirk on the Republican side; a pro-Jake Auchincloss super PAC on the Dem side; Ritchie Torres -- likely because of Torres' pro-Israel bona fides (a key issue for Kraft timesofisrael.com/patriots-owner…).
And of course, he cut a $5k check to American Working Families, the mysteriously named super PAC supporting Richie Neal in 2020.

opensecrets.org/outsidespendin…
Not quite correct of me to call Kraft a Republican, though he has contributed to them:

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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) will join Frequency Therapeutics CEO David Lucchino, who donated $3,900 to Auchincloss's 2020 campaign, for a chat on biopharma next Tuesday sponsored by the Harvard Business School Association. hbsab.org/s/1738/cc/21/p… ImageImage
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New from @Robillard and me: A look at how, over a few years, the new antitrust crusaders gained traction in both parties, and won the support of Joe Biden from "the corporate state of Delaware."

huffpost.com/entry/how-joe-… via @HuffPostPol
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New: People have been puzzled by why freshman Mass. Rep. Jake Auchincloss stuck his neck out for Pharma.

There's no single factor, but it turns out he gets a lot of donations from Pharma CEOs and other insiders, including his mother: huffpost.com/entry/jake-auc…
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Another backer is Patrick Ronan, a GOP donor who consults Pharma companies and employs Auchincloss's sister.
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