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Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman

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Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman

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Billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan R. Crow gave the maximum allowed contribution to the campaign for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. Kitts and Nevis — has come under increased scrutiny in recent years after ProPublica reported that he financed luxury travel for and bought property from conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who did not disclose the dealings. Fetterman has drawn ire from his previous supporters and his Democratic colleagues for what they’ve characterized as a stark shift in his ideological and policy stances since he was first elected to the Senate. A recent poll found that a majority of Democrats in Pennsylvania want Fetterman to leave the party, and that his approval rating is higher among Republicans than Democrats. In the contribution to Fetterman’s campaign, Crow listed his employer as the Trammell Crow Company and his occupation as real estate developer, rather than head of Crow Holdings, as he’d listed in other FEC filings earlier this year. (Trammell Crow was Harlan Crow’s father .) Fetterman, who campaigned for Senate as a progressive and endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for president in 2016, has faced criticism for breaking with his party and voting with Republicans on key issues from immigration to U.S. attacks on boats in international waters to the war with Iran , also voting for nominees of President Donald Trump . By signing up, I agree to receive emails from The Intercept and to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use . The Department of Government Efficiency has stripped Congress of its power of the purse.

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Billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan R. Crow gave the maximum allowed contribution to the campaign for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. Crow — magnate of a Texas real estate empire, longtime Republican donor, and past dual citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis — has come under increased scrutiny in recent years after ProPublica reported that he financed luxury travel for and bought property from conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who did not disclose the dealings. Crow also reportedly paid tuition for Thomas’s grandnephew at a private boarding school in Georgia. Crow did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the contribution to Fetterman’s campaign. Fetterman has drawn ire from his previous supporters and his Democratic colleagues for what they’ve characterized as a stark shift in his ideological and policy stances since he was first elected to the Senate. That shift has attracted Repu

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Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman

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