The National Association of Realtors Political Action Committee has now spent almost $600,000 to promote Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Monty Newman.
According to a notice it filed today with the Federal Election Commission, the group is spending almost $326,000 on TV ads promoting Newman in the
The group also spent a little more than $12,000 to produce the TV ad, which you can see by clicking here.
That’s on top of the nearly $250,000 the group is spending on a mailer, which you can view by clicking here. The Realtors’ PAC, according to its latest FEC filing, has spent $585,107.16 to promote Newman’s candidacy.
That has shifted the dynamic in this wide-open primary race, which was once thought by many to be a contest between Aubrey Dunn Jr. and Ed Tinsley. I suspected, before the Realtors got involved, that Dunn had the edge. That was because his strategy doesn’t include winning
But the Realtors are pushing Newman across the district. Dunn is likely to win
Thanks to the Realtors, Newman is on TV and in mailboxes across the district. Sowards, using his $325,000 loan to his own campaign, has covered the district in billboards and flooded
The only way to describe this race is wide open. It’s impossible to predict who will win.