NextEra Energy gives big to McConnell superPAC

by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC operated by close associates of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, continued to get more jumbo contributions in April from energy interests and Las Vegas. And it spent $773,000 in April successfully advertising for the election of GOP establishment-backed Rep. Todd Young in the Indiana…

GOP has $1.4 mil on hand, Dems only $100K

by Tom Loftus, @TomLoftus_CJ – The Republican Party of Kentucky got $124,350 in April from the Rand Paul Victory Committee – a political fund that raised money for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, U.S. Senate re-election campaign, and Paul’s own political action committee. Thanks to the transfer from the Paul Committee, the RPK was able to…