The Super PAC is being put together as part of Republican plan to defend redistricting maps in multiple states. A recent article on CNN by Teddy Schleifer had the scoop:
Adelson has begun sounding out other contributors, such as the Ricketts family, on forming a new super PAC that would focus on governors’ races and state legislative races ahead of the next redistricting cycle in 2020. Adelson would be willing to commit substantial resources to the group, which is still in early talks but is envisioned as a heavyweight GOP group similar to the Senate Leadership Fund or Congressional Leadership Fund.
Adelson has also been staying in close touch with Trump administration hands in Washington — last week, Adelson visited Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, one of the architects behind the White House’s plan to replace Obamacare. Few other donors — except for the big whales like Adelson — have had as much contact from the White House. The donor-tending that Romney zealously embraced is missing.
One example of a high profile battle this may impact is in North Carolina where racially based redistricting plans have been blocked but the question of new elections are undecided. Election expert Rick Hasen on his Election Law Blog recently posted, “The three judge court is acting even before the official mandate from the Supreme Court. Among other things, the court wants to know who speaks for North Carolina. A very good question.” See the recent DC article “Supreme Court Affirms NC Legislative Districts as Racial Gerrymanders” for more info on the case.
The Brennan Center’s Wendy Weiser talks here about the repercussions of the earlier NC redistricting ruling:
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