Wonder why you're getting an excessive amount of mail and ads for Adam Braun?

It's because his campaign is fueled by Political Action Committee money.

​We have laws to prevent legislators from immediately lobbying for a reason, it creates conflicts of interest. PACs aren't giving Adam hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the goodness of their hearts - they want to own his votes in the legislature.

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A few examples of the big PACs supporting Adam:

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• $404,511.95 from the American Future PAC, this is a DraftKings-backed PAC. Adam lobbied for DraftKings for 6 years.​​

  • $215,252.15 spent supporting Adam

  • $189,259.80 spent opposing James O'Brien

    • Mar. 12th - $50,609.66 in direct mail and radio advertising (pages 1 & 5)

    • Mar. 11th - $6,037.00 in digital advertising

    • Mar. 11th - $65,810.16 in direct mail and digital advertising (pages 1 & 3)

    • Mar. 10th - $48,590.16 in direct mail and digital advertising (pages 7 & 9)

    • Mar. 10th - $11,904.80 in television advertising (page 7)

    • Mar. 10th - $33,256.00 in digital advertising (amendment to their Mar. 4th filing)

    • Mar. 9th - $24,249.82 in direct mail

    • Feb. 25th - $72,408.07 in direct mail and digital advertising (page 1) 

    • Feb. 23rd - $17,169.68 in direct mail

    • Feb. 19th - $24,913.60 in direct mail (page 4)

    • Feb. 18th - $49,563.00 in digital advertising​​​​​​​

  • American Future PAC received $450K (their only source of funds for the filing year) from Win For America, a $2M DraftKings-backed PAC in an opaque funding structure ​

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• $196,458.93 from Making Our Tomorrow, a Meta-backed PAC to support candidates that will weaken regulations around data centers and artificial intelligence (New York Times)

  • ​Mar. 11th - $17,540.00 in mailing, postage, and shipping

  • ​Mar. 10th - $22,029.66 in mailing, postage, and shipping 

  • Mar. 10th - $1,590.93 in voter contact 

  • Mar. 6th - $9,539.50 in digital advertising

  • Mar. 5th - $15,028.98 in voter contact

  • Mar. 3rd - $21,338.82 in direct mail

  • Feb. 25th - $30,878.32 in digital advertising and direct mail

  • Feb. 20th - $23,065.92 in direct mail

  • Feb. 18th - $30,878.32 in digital advertising and direct mail

  • A1 Report on Feb. 12th showing a $750K donation from Meta to Making Our Tomorrow​

• $10,000 from Underdog Sports, a Brooklyn-based gambling company that recently settled with the state of New York on allegations of running unpermitted gambling operations -source​

• $5,000 from the Illinois Manufactured Housing Association PAC​​​​​​​​​​​

 

These are just a few examples of the hundreds of thousands of dollars from lobbyists and special interest groups supporting Adam. 

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​You can research Adam's campaign financial reports using the IL State Board of Elections website or the Illinois Sunshine Database.

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