This article by Anna Massoglia is published by Open Secrets. Here is an excerpt:

A “dark money” group tied to billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel steered hundreds of thousands of dollars into a super PAC spending on Ohio’s Senate race in support of “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance, who worked at Thiel’s venture capital firm. Vance faces a crowded field of Republican contenders in the Ohio Senate race with a primary scheduled for May 3. 

The pro-Vance super PAC, Protect Ohio Values, received $200,000 from a group called Per Aspera Policy.

Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, also gave $10 million to the pro-Vance super PAC during the first half of 2021 but the super PAC did not report any money received from Thiel during the second half of the year.

While Per Aspera Policy has not disclosed its donors, the Kansas City Star reported that Thiel gave a contribution worth “six figures” to Per Aspera Policy when it was paying for ads boosting Kris Kobach’s failed 2018 gubernatorial bid. 

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