8/24 PAC Tracker

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These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 23, and report new expenses filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 16. Future editions will update the tallies and report new expenses only. As a reminder, this will be included in all subscription tiers.

CA-07 (only counting expenditures since the June 2 primary)

81-year-old Rep. Doris Matsui faces a stiff challenge from fellow Democrat Mai Vang, a Sacramento City Councilor running to Matsui’s left with the backing of Justice Democrats and an added message of generational change.

Total IEs: $200,000
Pro-Matsui: $200,000

CA-11 (only counting expenditures since the June 2 primary)

Left-NIMBY San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan and pro-tech right-YIMBY state Sen. Scott Wiener have produced the most cursed Democrat-on-Democrat election of the cycle; never change, San Francisco.

Total IEs: $49,052 | +$49,052
Pro-Wiener: $49,052 | +$49,052

MA-Sen

Sen. Ed Markey should have retired this year, but he didn’t, and the choice is now between Markey and the one Massachusetts politician bold enough to challenge him: transphobic loser Seth Moulton, the congressman for Boston’s northern suburbs and exurbs.

Total IEs: $5,670,861.05 | +$1,111,489.58
Anti-Markey: $2,281,804.93 | +$397,200
Pro-Markey: $17,917
Anti-Moulton: $1,922,460.33 | +$261,489.58
Pro-Moulton: $1,448,678.79 | +$452,800

MA-01

Longtime Rep. Richard Neal faces a scrappy challenge from leftist high school history teacher Jeromie Whalen, who has lately spooked the incumbent into heavy last-minute advertising.

Total IEs: $24,612 | +$24,612
Pro-Whalen: $24,612 | +$24,612
  • $24,612 in phonebanking from SF Solidarity PAC (Saikat Chakrabarti’s CA-11 campaign committee converted into a super PAC)

MA-04

Centrist Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a favorite of the tech industry, faces a thinly-resourced challenge from researcher Jason Poulos.

Total IEs: $142,145.70 | +$94,763.80
Pro-Auchincloss: $142,145.70 | +$94,763.80

MA-06

The race to succeed Moulton is an absolute clown car, with state Rep. Tram Nguyen and former MA-03 candidate Dan Koh seeming to lead the pack as self-funder John Beccia and a trio of underfunded progressives fight to break through.

Total IEs: $1,881,476.63 | +$1,021,027.72
Pro-Koh: $1,546,313.41 | +$729,689.94
Pro-Nguyen: $335,163.22 | +$291,337.78

MA-08

Rep. Stephen Lynch has long been an obvious primary target; he was socially conservative long after that stopped being unremarkable for a House Democrat, and he’s just generally up there in years. Attorney Patrick Roath has the backing of some progressive groups and labor unions as well as a lot of local elected officials, as he hopes to make this the year Lynch goes down.

Total IEs: $422,778.67 | +$159,549.64
Anti-Lynch: $213,720.83 | +$110,944.18
Pro-Roath: $209,057.54 | +$48,605.46

NH-01

The top two candidates for outgoing Rep. Chris Pappas’s seat, Stefany Shaheen and Maura Sullivan, are as uninspiring as he is. Shaheen is the daughter of retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and Sullivan is a repeat NH-01 candidate who was a centrist back when she first ran in 2018 and remains a centrist now. There are other progressives running campaigns with varying degrees of resources; we’ll see if any break through.

Total IEs: $2,787,043.93 | +$534,255.69
Pro-Shaheen: $1,305,551.16 | +$328,459.60
Pro-Sullivan: $1,471,492.77 | +$195,796.09
Pro-Beriont: $10,000 | +$10,000

WA-09

Socialist firebrand/crank Kshama Sawant is back, and this time she’s here to irritate Rep. Adam Smith, a bland centrist who has long led Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee.

Total IEs: $5,600
Pro-Sawant: $5,600

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