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Nevertheless, on October 20, 2020, Nevada Gold Mines – “the unholy alliance between transnational mining giants Barrick and Newmont,” as liberal blogger Hugh Jackson puts it – donated $250,000 to Home Means Nevada PAC, and on December 21, 2020 it kicked in another $250,000.
So we’re looking at a half-million dollars from Big Mining to a PAC that does the bidding of Nevada Democrats. And how did Home Means Nevada spend its dough in the fall leading up to Election Day?
Well, it donated $250,000 to the Nevada State Democrat Party and another $100,000 to the Nevada Senate Democrats caucus.
It also maxed out at $10,000 each to the Democrats’ three competitive state Senate candidates on the ballot: Kristee Watson, Wendy Jauregui-Jackins and Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro.
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As in most election years, no single group of political donors was a bigger booster for legislative Democrats than labor unions, which shelled out more than $1 million on legislative campaigns in 2020, of which roughly 94 percent went to Democrats.
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Still, it was a sharp drop in contributions from labor groups, which doled out nearly $1.4 million during the 2018 midterm elections and almost $1.7 million in 2016.
In order to assess broad trends in campaign spending,
The Nevada Independent categorized and analyzed more than 7,700 contributions of more than $200 made to sitting Nevada lawmakers in 2019 and 2020.
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These contributions capture nearly all campaign spending in the two-year cycle, and more broadly show to whom the largest contributions flowed and how much those contributions were worth in the aggregate.
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