Rusty Glover, an Alabama Republican state senate candidate accustomed to bare-bones political campaigns, this year is facing an onslaught of advertisements on video streaming services attacking him as a greedy “career politician.”
A group funded by sports gambling companies FanDuel and DraftKings poured more than $2.2 million into ads to defeat Glover, a gambling opponent, in a suburban Mobile district with fewer than 150,000 residents, according to ad analytics company AdImpact. The same group also barraged the district with more than a dozen mailers and a wave of anti-Glover phone calls.
US corporations, faced with a legislative logjam in Washington, are increasingly bringing their financial power to bear on state-level election campaigns through super political action committees targeting those contests as they seek to shape regulations.
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