That outside group, BlackPAC, is partially funded by
Several other political groups that do not disclose or only partially disclose their donors also are listed by the
McCaskill spokeswoman
"This was all publicly reported, and she calls on them to publicly release all of their donors," Bernstein said.
BlackPAC was credited with helping to bring out black voters for Democrat
McCaskill has consistently said she supports public disclosure of all campaign donors, and has criticized her opponent,
In a debate during a
But nine minutes into a video posted Friday on the website of
"Because this is such a battleground state, there is a third-party organization that is sending a lot of resources into
"But I will tell you they announced today an organization called BlackPAC," she said. "It was the same organization that went into
McCaskill noted press reports that the group had registered 87,000 voters in the state and had a goal of registering more than 100,000.
McCaskill added: "I am told they have millions of dollars. I don't know this for a fact, but I am told they have millions of dollars just to work on voter registration, voter identification, and voter turnout."
An aide to McCaskill argued that there is an important difference between spending on voter registration and that of dark-money financed attack ads.
Last spring, the
"BlackPAC's financial resources, for one, do not come from an army of small-dollar, 'grassroots' donors in the style of a politician such as
"These groups, in turn, are funded in large part by wealthy, white men. Liberal, 'dark money' nonprofit groups that don't publicly disclose the identities of their own contributors are also among BlackPAC's bankrollers."
A spokesman for Majority Forward, which is a secretly funded nonprofit offshoot of Schumer's leadership PAC that does disclose its donors, had no comment.
On its internet site, BlackPAC describes itself as "an independent, Black-led organization that uses the power of year-round political engagement and elections to change our economic, justice, and political systems."
The newspaper reported that the effort is funded by "
McCaskill cited Kavanaugh's support of "dark money" when she announced last month that she would vote against him.
"It is his allegiance to the position that unlimited donations and dark anonymous money, from even foreign interests, should be allowed to swamp the voices of individuals that has been the determining factor in my decision to vote no on his nomination," McCaskill said then.
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