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GOP Senate Hopeful Cooks Books, Skirts Donation Limits
GOP Senate candidate in Montana is running his campaign through the same committee he used in 2014 to run for Congress. The committee still technically owes the candidate from loans he made to it for his own race. There's no limit to donations to pay down that debt. So people that have maxed out their donations to his campaign are donating to pay down the past loans. They're essentially giving money to the candidate that he can then loan to his campaign.
On 5/14 the committee paid the Rosendale $32,831. On 5/15 the Rosendale loaned $32,831 to his campaign.
GOP Senate candidate in Montana is running his campaign through the same committee he used in 2014 to run for Congress. The committee still technically owes the candidate from loans he made to it for his own race. There's no limit to donations to pay down that debt. So people that have maxed out their donations to his campaign are donating to pay down the past loans. They're essentially giving money to the candidate that he can then loan to his campaign.
On 5/14 the committee paid the Rosendale $32,831. On 5/15 the Rosendale loaned $32,831 to his campaign.
Nine donors stepped up in April and May to help retire the campaign’s debt to Rosendale, including Rastin, Wright, Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus and his wife Wilma, veteran political consultant Roy Pfautch, and Texas oil tycoons Wayne and Gayle Laufer. Eight of the nine donors had already maxed out to the Rosendale campaign. The debt retirement contributions would’ve put all nine of them over the per-election limit for individual contributors had they gone towards the Rosendale campaign’s 2018 coffers.