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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To put those DFER numbers in perspective, candidates who participate in DC Fair Elections are limited to $50 per donor and agree to cap their spending at $250,000 for the entire campaign. That amount of dark money makes a mockery of public campaign finance. [/quote]
To put the numbers in perspective, they were not only expenditures on one candidate. [/quote]

DFER has dropped over a million dollars in the past eight weeks on three candidates -- Muriel Bowser, Phil Mendelson and Eric Goulet. They are only one of several dark money groups spending big in this election, albeit the largest. They are spending the money on direct mail, digital advertising and consultants.

A conservative estimate of the amount spent on Goulet's behalf is $400k. [/quote]
What’s your “conservative estimate” based on? You’re just guessing? [/quote]

According to Matt Frumin, DFER told him they were dropping $250K into the Ward 3 race. DFER is one of three major dark money groups spending a lot of money in this election. All three groups are supporting the same three candidates. So far DFER has spent about 60% of what the three groups have spent combined. Extrapolating that gives over $400k. 
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This is a drop in a bucket compared to what development companies, their service providers, and industry-affiliated astroturf groups are putting into DC races.[/quote]

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