Did British Petroleum Donate Money to Americans for Job Security?
Shadowy front group refuses to disclose who is funding television ads Springfield, PA – Americans for Job Security yesterday announced that they would be running about $300,000 worth of television attack ads against Representative Bryan Lentz’s campaign for Congress over the next month. Lentz, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, called on his opponent to join him in rejecting that advertising until the group disclosed who its donors are to District voters. Americans for Job Security is a shadowy organization that operates in the cracks of the nation’s election laws and will spend millions of dollars to influence the outcome of races across the country without disclosing who they received funding from. Because they operate as a 501(c)6, they are not required to disclose who their donors are and there are no limits on the size of donations that they can receive, which can be used to run political advertising. . An organization like Americans
