A Well-Connected Veteran’s Congressional Campaign Is Fueled by Out-of-State Donors
IN HER RACE for a New Hampshire congressional seat, a well-connected military veteran with an expansive Washington resume is being funded by out-of-state donors and boosted by a super PAC with links to billionaires Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg.
Maggie Goodlander raised over $1.5 million in the first two months of her campaign, almost all of which came from individual donors. Eighty-eight percent of the individual contributions came from outside New Hampshire, according to The Intercept’s analysis of campaign finance reports. Almost all of the outside spending in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, meanwhile, has come from the Principled Veterans Fund, a spinoff of a PAC that Bezos poured millions into at its inception in 2018 and that his parents and Bloomberg more recently funded. The veterans-focused super PAC has spent upward of $150,000 on pro-Goodlander ads.
Goodlander’s individual donors include employees of companies like Meta, Palantir, Blackstone, and various corporate law firms; Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet; Biden adviser Gene Sperling; and White House staffers. Her campaign has also received contributions from various PACs, including those of New York Rep. Dan Goldman, Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen, and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal.
