You know the Connecticut governor’s race has national implications when a Super PAC headed by an Ohio lobbyist drops $1.17 million into Grow Connecticut, the PAC mostly backed by the Republican Governors Association, against Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Such is the case with Tom Norris of West Chester, Ohio. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-norris/2a/596/a34
The State Elections Enforcement Commission reported the contribution late Saturday from Norris’s A Public Voice, Inc. PAC. Here are a couple links to recent investigations by news media in Ohio that refer to the secretive conservative PAC as “Dark Money.” So at this point, with slightly more than a week, outside money from both sides has exceeded the $6.5 million that Republican Tom Foley and Malloy have each received in public financing.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/10/former_josh_mandel_aide_now_a.html
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/07/11/15061/super-pac-subverting-disclosure-rules
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/07/11/15061/super-pac-subverting-disclosure-rules