Owners began increasing political contributions to Democrats when legal troubles piled up —
WFB: David Garcia, a Democratic candidate for governor in Arizona, accepted campaign contributions from the owner of a website that is tied to underage trafficking and prostitution.
Michael G. Lacey, who in 2012 sold his newspaper holdings and spun off the classified ad website Backpage.com into its own entity, has given $162,000 in contributions to a number of Democratic politicians at the state and federal levels since legal problems against the site began to mount, the Arizona Republic reported.
The publication missed one Democratic politician in the state who received funds from Lacey as he began to ramp up his political contributions: David Garcia, who is currently challenging Republican Gov. Doug Ducey.
When Garcia ran for state superintendent of public instruction in 2014, Lacey gave his campaign $2,000 in donations. Lacey did not contribute to any other state-level candidate that year other than Garcia. Rather, he donated to a Democratic group in Sedona, Arizona and Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego. read more
So old sausage head likes slimy money! He is a Democrat after all!
not a word from republicans ?
if it was a republican who took the money the democrats couldn’t get to a microphone fast enough to denounce the entire party as a bunch of child molesters.
the republicans suck at this occupation called politician.
if it wasn’t the last bastion of scoundrels they would be unemployed eating out of dumpsters.
bill, maybe what happens in Comet Pizza stays in Comet Pizza. No matter which party. It might be too intrinsic to DC culture to politicize.
They must be old teen-age friends.
Isn’t that a resume enhancer for a democrat?