Why It Matters
Women Speak Out PAC has spent $262,000 opposing Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34) in Texas's 34th U.S. House District, a race rated Lean Democratic — about a third of the super PAC's $799,000 in total outside spending this cycle. The group describes itself on its website as a partner of SBA Pro-Life America that "amplifies the voices of women who oppose abortion extremists in Congress," using microtargeting and door-to-door outreach to reach persuadable voters.
Fox News reported on Oct. 8 that the committee is the super PAC of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
The committee spent nearly ten times as much opposing Democrats ($725,000) as it spent supporting Republicans ($74,000).
What It Spent
The committee's opposition spending targets Democrats in four states. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) is the largest target, with $262,000 spent against him. The second-largest is Jon Ossoff (D-GA), with about $218,000 spent against him in the Georgia Senate race. Next are Amish Shah (D-AZ), at $132,000, Lindsay James (D-IA), at $58,000, and Joshua Turek (D-IA), at $56,000.
On the support side, the committee spent $56,000 for Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA-2) and $18,000 for Arizona Republican James Feely.
Through Oct. 14, the committee raised $8.78 million, spent $3.12 million, and held $6.21 million in cash — leaving it with roughly twice as much on hand as it has deployed so far this cycle.
Who Funds It
Restoration of America PAC supplied $7.67 million to Women Speak Out PAC this cycle, about 87 percent of the committee's $8.78 million in total receipts. Contributions from other political committees made up 98 percent of total receipts; individual donors contributed $25,000.
Other organizational contributors include Virginians for Fair Maps, an advocacy group, which gave $50,000, and Federated Hermes International, a financial services firm, which gave $1,473. The two largest individual donors, Trevor B. Cox and Amy M. Johnson-Hutchins, each gave $5,000.
The committee also made two contributions totaling $200,000 to Security Is Strength PAC, a super PAC whose connected organization is listed as Trump-Graham Majority Fund, both dated Aug. 21. Those contributions are separate from its independent expenditures.
The Ad Buy
The largest payments have gone to digital advertising. On Sept. 24, the committee paid Voz Media Inc. $185,000 for digital TV ads opposing Gonzalez, and another $65,000 the same day for social media ads against him — $250,000 against one candidate in a single day.
Donorvision LLC handles the digital work in Georgia: $102,000 on Sept. 18 for digital ads opposing Ossoff, and another $101,000 on Oct. 15 for the same purpose. On Oct. 15, Donorvision also received $83,000 for digital ads opposing Shah in Arizona. On Oct. 19, Donorvision paid $56,000 for mailers opposing Turek and $56,000 for mailers supporting Hinson in Iowa — the same vendor handling both sides of the state's contested races on the same day.
No FCC broadcast ad buys or FCC ad filings are on record.
Fox News reported Oct. 8 that the committee planned $1.35 million in Iowa as part of an effort to expose Democratic candidates' abortion positions, and The Christian Post reported the same day that Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and the committee had visited 3 million homes in battleground states.
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