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Virtually all funding for American Crossroads , its sister organization, comes from a small number of billionaires including Harold Simmons , the owner of Contran Corporation , and Texas Homebuilder Bob Perry , according to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Due to the U. Supreme Court's January Citizens United decision, groups like American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS can legally advocate for or against political candidates without restrictions on the amount of money they can raise from individuals and corporations. Due to the Court's FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life decision, "independent" groups organized under c of the tax code like Crossroads GPS can run "issue-oriented" political ads without disclosing their donors.
As a nonprofit c 4 organization, Crossroads GPS is not required by the IRS to disclose its donors, as such organizations are intended to "promote social welfare. Although Crossroads GPS does not disclose the identity of its donors thanks to its nonprofit status, it must disclose the amounts of its largest donations in its year-end IRS filing. Crossroads GPS has worked to get around the problem of excessive political activity in part by transferring funds to other dark money nonprofits that run ads in elections.
This shell game-like activity is apparently defined as "social welfare" that allows Crossroads to claim that its primary purpose is not campaign intervention. The organization was created to elect Republicans and defeat Democrats.
However, the Center for Responsive Politics calculated that at least 65 percent of Crossroads GPS' spending in went to "media firms that specialize in the production of political ads," suggesting that spending to influence elections likely made up more than half of the group's spending that year. Crossroads GPS reported the following grants in [20].
Senate against incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat. In late , Crossroads GPS began a national ad campaign targeting Obama's spending record and involvement with solar company Solyndra. A national cable ad aired on December 21th, followed by a second ad in early which specifically targeted Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, and Arizona.
Crossroads ran ads throughout accusing President Obama of not doing enough to cut spending, decrease the deficit, and create jobs. Almost every GPS attack ad invoked this theme. As a c 4 , many of Crossroads' attack ads were ostensibly "issue based" and did not directly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate. Some of GPS's largest ad buys used this format.
In , they began an active "New Majority Agenda" campaign to create a Republican-Controlled senate [51] Crossroads GPS ads generally instruct the viewer to tell their Senator to support this "New Majority Agenda", and attack the target for supporting the Affordable Care act or the stimulus. Because Crossroads GPS does not have to report how it spends its money, and its press releases often discuss several ads buys at once, it is difficult to know how much Crossroads GPS has spend influencing each election.
The sections below detail Crossroads GPS's involvement in key senate races in the election, along with examples of ads they have aired against candidates in those races. Crossroads GPS endorsed the following candidates in the elections: [8]. Crossroads GPS opposed the following candidates in [8].
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