MayDay PAC, Harvard professor Larry Lessig’s super PAC with the mission to end super PACs, dropped $774,000 in the Kansas Senate race to boost independent Greg Orman in his campaign against Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS).
The PAC reported the spending on TV advertising over the weekend to the Federal Election Commission and released a new ad. The buy is the campaign- finance-reform-focused group’s first spending in support of Orman, who has said that he would support a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
“I’ve been a Republican for most of my life, but i’m not voting for Pat Roberts,” Nancy Moffitt of Overland Park, Kan., says. She then criticizes the incumbent for taking money from Wall Streets and failing to be tough on “big banks.”
“Oh, Pat Roberts is good for Washington and Wall Street special interests,” Moffitt says, “but bad for Kansas.”
With Democratic groups largely staying out of the Kansas campaign, other outside spending groups have started to come to Orman’s aid. The Committee to Elect an Independent Senate, backed by billionaires Peter Ackerman and John Burbank, purchased $401,000 in TV airtime last week.