Elections
Super PAC with GOP-linked vendor targets Ohio Senate race with pro-Levy mailers
PN Team • 3 weeks ago
A newly formed super PAC called Enough Promises Ohio spent nearly $400,000 on mailers promoting independent socialist Senate candidate Greg Levy and opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown ahead of Ohio's Nov. 3 special election. The mailers, urging voters to "Join the Revolution" and "Send a Worker to the Senate," touted Levy's support for Palestinians, universal health care, free child care and education, and a $30 minimum wage.
Levy's campaign disavowed any connection to the mailers, calling them a deceptive, "racist caricaturing" of Levy, who is Black, and said it is weighing legal action. FEC records show the PAC, registered Sept. 29 in Reynoldsburg, paid a printing vendor tied to Whistlestop Strategies, a direct-mail firm linked to Republican consulting group Big Dog Strategies, which has advised Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC and Bernie Moreno's 2024 campaign against Brown. A separate GOP-aligned super PAC, Sentinel Action Fund, used the same vendor to back Republican Sen. Jon Husted. Analysts note third-party candidates can siphon marginal votes in tight races; polling shows Husted and Brown within single digits of each other, with Libertarian Bill Redpath also running.
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Sentiment
- Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is implicated through GOP-linked vendors and consultants secretly funding deceptive mailers against a Democrat, suggesting underhanded political tactics.
- Democratic Party (United States) Democrat Sherrod Brown is the party's candidate targeted by the PAC's opposition mailers, lightly implicating the party.
- Sherrod Brown Sherrod Brown is the target of opposition mailers from a PAC with dubious ties, a mostly neutral but slightly unfavorable positioning as the attacked candidate.
- Independent politician Independent candidate Levy's campaign is referenced tangentially amid the mailer controversy without being independently characterized negatively.
- Ohio Ohio is the location of the Senate race, mentioned factually without reputational implication.
- United States Senate The U.S. Senate is mentioned only as the office being contested, a neutral factual reference.