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The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) is a Super PAC dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives.[1] The Super PAC, which was closely linked to former House Speaker John Boehner and House GOP leadership, was founded in 2011 and spent nearly $10 million in the 2012 cycle electing Republican candidates.[2] Following Boehner's resignation from the U.S. Congress and the election of Paul D. Ryan as Speaker of the House, it became closely linked to Ryan.[3]
Of The Guardian's ranking of the five most bigoted campaign ads during the 2018 election campaign, four of the five were ads by the CLF. During the 2018 mid-term elections. CLF produced a number of false ads, including two that falsely linked two Democratic candidates with terrorists. In one ad, the CLF depicted Antonio Delgado, an African-American Rhodes scholar with a Harvard Law degree, as a foul-mouthed and "disturbingly radical" rapper, and misrepresented lyrics from his rap career.[4][5]
- ^ Paul Blumenthal, "House Republican Super PAC Ready To Raise Unlimited Funds To Retain GOP Majority", The Huffington Post, October 13, 2011.
- ^ Alexander Burns, "Bob Perry gives $1 million to Congressional Leadership Fund", Politico, July 15, 2012.
- ^ Drucker, David M. "Paul Ryan-aligned super PAC moves to save GOP House seat". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
- ^ Salvador Rizzo (August 31, 2018). "Fact Checker • Analysis: Fact-checking Republican attack ads in tight House races". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
- ^ Astead W. Herndon (October 22, 2018). "The Most Inflammatory Ads of the Midterms". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2018.