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Drew WilsonDecember 6, 2018

It took more than $82 million in campaign funds for Republican Rick Scott to boot Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson from office, and more than three quarters of that cash came from two-term Governor’s personal wealth. The post-election finance report for Scott’s principal campaign committee, Rick Scott for Florida, shows the former HCA exec plunked […]

Scott PowersNovember 26, 2018

With federal financial reports now on file well through the Nov. 6 election, the total spending by outside groups in Florida’s U.S. Senate election reached $86.8 million, far and away the most outside money ever spent on a Florida federal race. More than three-fifths of that money, $54.7 million was spent on a losing cause, […]

Scott PowersNovember 3, 2018

The price tag for this year’s U.S. Senate race has topped $177 million and is likley to go much higher as Floridians head toward Tuesday’s election. At this rate the U.S. Senate seat is almost certain to soar well over $200 million by the time all the bills are reported. The candidates and outside political […]

Drew WilsonNovember 1, 2018

New filings with the Federal Elections Commission show New Republican PAC, the political committee backing Gov. Rick Scott’s Senate bid, has pumped nearly $10 million into media buys since the end of last week. A trio of 24-hour finance disclosures show Scott’s committee put down more than $900,000 for a media placement opposing his Democratic […]

Scott PowersOctober 30, 2018

New Republican Political Action Committee is launching its latest attack ad charging that Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is getting confused and does nothing but raise taxes and cut Medicare, this time with those words coming out of the mouth of a grandmother during a three-generation breakfast. The 30-second spot “Generations” launches today in a […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 29, 2018

Another day, another bit of new creative from the New Republican PAC. The Rick Scott-supportive committee released a digital ad Monday that reminded voters of one of the Scott campaign’s central contentions; namely, that Sen. Bill Nelson is nothing more than a party-line Democrat who has been in politics way too long. The fifteen second digital spot, part […]

Scott PowersOctober 26, 2018

As if an outside spending figure of $53 million through last Tuesday was not impressive enough, national groups have flooded Florida with another $13 million in campaign advertising just in the three days since trying to sway voters in the U.S. Senate contest between Bill Nelson and Rick Scott. As has been the case throughout […]

Scott PowersOctober 16, 2018

The Republican political committee that brought Florida Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s “empty suit” commercials running constantly for weeks released a new ad that fills the suit with everything from tax increase votes to a confused mind. The new 30-second spot, “Lining,” from New Republican Political Action Committee, the committee Republican Gov. Rick Scott set up […]

Scott PowersOctober 16, 2018

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Outside groups have spent almost $17 million just in the past two weeks on advertising and other campaigning in the battle between Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and his opponent Republican Gov. Rick Scott in Florida’s U.S. Senate election. That spending ramped up from an already impressive $25 million that outside groups previously had spent […]

Scott PowersOctober 3, 2018

A new ad from the political action committee set up by Republican Gov. Rick Scott to provide outside support to his U.S. Senate campaign is painting Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson as a “do-nothing” featuring a retrospective of empty suits starting with a 1970s wide-lapel three-piece. The 30-second spot, “Empty Suit,” pivots off a 1990 article […]

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Rick Scott spent $63 million punching his ticket to Washington

Outside groups spent $87 million on Florida’s U.S. Senate race

Price tag of Florida’s U.S. Senate race: $177 million and climbing

Rick Scott PAC spends $10M on last-minute media blitz

Grandma rips Bill Nelson as ‘more and more confused’ in New Republican PAC ad

‘Voices’ in Rick Scott PAC ad malign ‘party-line’ Bill Nelson

Money still flooding into Florida’s U.S. Senate race from outside groups, especially from Democrats

New commercial fills Bill Nelson’s suit with scary things

Outside money now at $42 million in Florida’s U.S. Senate race

New Republican PAC offers retrospective of Bill Nelson’s ’empty suits’