Now-legal outside funding fuels campaign-finance debate

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS:  U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak supports an “unfair scheme to grow unions” through federal legislation that will cost Pennsylvania thousands of jobs.

Former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey “supports letting Wall Street execs keep every penny of their bonuses” but doesn’t think that soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan should get a combat-pay bonus.

If you own a television, chances are you’ve heard those messages this week from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which opposes Sestak’s bid as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, or from VoteVets.org, which opposes Toomey, the Republican nominee in the Nov. 2 election.

What you didn’t hear: Who gave the chamber and VoteVets the money to run those ads? …  (more)

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