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TexasTowelie

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Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:15 AM Oct 2015

Is the national finance director for Bush’s official presidential campaign taking his PAC money?

Super PACs are supposed to be both transparent and independent from the politicians they are supporting.

But it’s not clear that Right to Rise USA, the super PAC formed by Republican Jeb Bush prior to his presidential bid, is either.

The super PAC’s biggest single vendor this year through June is a mysterious limited liability company, LKJ, LLC, whose owners are hidden behind the state of Delaware’s opaque registration laws. The company doesn’t appear to have a website or a physical office.

It’s only known address: a Washington, D.C., post office box — one it shares with a company run by Heather Larrison, the national finance director for Bush’s official presidential campaign.

Read more: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/10/07/18258/pro-bush-super-pac-obscuring-spending

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Is the national finance director for Bush’s official presidential campaign taking his PAC money? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2015 OP
the not so faint whiff of corruption of the Bush Family irisblue Oct 2015 #1

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