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Tesla Chairman Elon Musk's other company doing business in Nevada gave nearly $40,000 to lawmakers and Gov. Brian Sandoval right before the special session that ratified the gigafactory deal and shortly after the 15-day post-session fundraising blackout period ended.
The largest donation from Solar City was a $7,000 thank you to Sandoval right after the blackout period ended, but the company also gave to key lawmakers and partisan caucus PACs, including in the days before the session started....
These will leave a mark.
With the state party a joke and incapable of raising money or executing the simplest tasks, megadonor Sheldon Adelson put his faith in the Clark County party, giving three quarters of what it raised since June.
The report shows Las Vegas Sands gave $30,000 out of the $46,000 raised by the county GOP, which really hasn't done much besides occasionally sending generally ignored news releases into the black hole of cyberspace, and despite spending nearly $80,000, mostly on payroll and other costs...
Oscar Goodman's ex-campaign boss Tom Letizia produced three spots, going up Thursday, with help from car dealers and others who he says have donated $100,000 to a new PAC. Letizia says other donors inlcude "media, gaming and business."
UPDATE: Letizia says Goodman didn't want to be paid for doing the ad, but that Letizia insisted. That's their story....