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{"id":27536,"date":"2026-10-19T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-linked-pac-spends-over-1m-to-boost-third-party-socialist-in-ohio-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:19:46","slug":"gop-linked-pac-spends-over-1m-to-boost-third-party-socialist-in-ohio-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-linked-pac-spends-over-1m-to-boost-third-party-socialist-in-ohio-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP-linked PAC spends over $1M to boost third-party socialist in Ohio Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A GOP-aligned super PAC has more-than tripled its investment in the Ohio Senate race over the last week as it seeks to boost a socialist candidate \u2014 an apparent attempt to sink former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<p>Enough Promises Ohio, which was created last month, has spent a combined $1.58 million to promote Greg Levy and oppose Brown, <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00962563\/2028991\/se\" target=\"_blank\"><u>according<\/u><\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00962563\/2029667\/se\" target=\"_blank\"><u>recent<\/u> <u>filings<\/u><\/a> from the Federal Election Commission. Levy, a candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is also on the ballot in the tight race for Senate between Brown and Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted. He\u2019s running a longshot bid, currently <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.bgsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&amp;context=depo\" target=\"_blank\"><u>polling<\/u><\/a> at 5 percent, but could siphon away more progressive voters from Brown.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be the first time this cycle that operatives for a major political party attempted to raise a third-party candidate&#8217;s profile to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/15\/tight-house-races-major-parties-prop-up-third-party-spoilers\/?utm_\" target=\"_blank\"><u>meddle<\/u><\/a> with the outcome. Recent public polling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/ohio-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\"><u>shows a dead heat<\/u><\/a> between Brown and Husted in the race.<\/p>\n<p>The super PAC spent a total of $828,359 on mailers supporting Levy or opposing Brown. <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la\/news\/2026\/10\/12\/greg-levy-socialist-ohio-senate-republican?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Spectrum News<\/u><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/12\/pac-linked-gop-firm-is-boosting-ohio-socialist-greg-levy-senate-race\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\"><u>The Washington Post<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/cleveland\/2026\/10\/16\/maga-super-pac-greg-levy-mailers-ohio-senate-race?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Axios<\/u><\/a> previously reported Enough Promises Ohio spent $400,000 on such mailers, but the expenditure has since grown.<\/p>\n<p>The group also poured an additional $753,000 into ads supporting Levy and opposing Brown over the weekend, including <a href=\"https:\/\/adstransparency.google.com\/advertiser\/AR09108580317085564929\/creative\/CR00732982322780962817?region=US&amp;topic=political\" target=\"_blank\"><u>one video ad<\/u><\/a> on Google that knocks Brown as someone who \u201csold us out\u201d and boosts \u201creal progressive Greg Levy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign finance filings show Enough Promises Ohio used a printing company linked to a Republican political firm, Whistletop Strategies. Whistletop has <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00960435\/2018548\/se\" target=\"_blank\"><u>worked with an affiliate<\/u><\/a> of President Donald Trump\u2019s MAGA Inc. super PAC and lists as its \u201cdirector\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/search.sunbiz.org\/Inquiry\/CorporationSearch\/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&amp;directionType=ForwardList&amp;searchNameOrder=WHISTLESTOPSTRATEGIES%20L220001213240&amp;aggregateId=flal-l22000121324-05d9b2b6-0dbd-463a-81f4-3ec106559ca2&amp;searchTerm=WHISTLE%20STOP%20BAKERY%2C%20LLC&amp;listNameOrder=WHISTLESTOPGIFTS%20L230000932350\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Big Dog Strategies<\/u><\/a>, which helped run Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno\u2019s 2024 election campaign and is a consultant for the Ohio GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Enough Promises Ohio did not respond to a request for comment. Neither did Big Dog Strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Natoce, a spokesperson for the Husted campaign, told Blue Light News, \u201cour campaign had no involvement with the group you are referencing. Therefore, we have no comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Levy himself has distanced himself from the PAC, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GregLevy4Senate\/status\/2109404983380578469?s=20\" target=\"_blank\"><u>calling<\/u><\/a> its boosting of him an \u201cattempted deception of voters\u201d that\u2019s \u201ca form of digital blackface.\u201d Levy is Black. His spokesperson, Charlie Koenigsmark, also told Blue Light News he and the campaign \u201ccompletely condemn this attempt to manipulate voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP-aligned super PAC has more-than tripled its investment in the Ohio Senate race over the last week as it seeks to boost a socialist candidate \u2014 an apparent attempt to sink former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown\u2019s chances. Enough Promises Ohio, which was created last month, has spent a combined $1.58 million to promote Greg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}