The secretive giving is the latest example of how outside groups are obscuring their spending in competitive campaigns. Special interest groups, including AIPAC, have sometimes tried to veil their spending by using affiliated organizations that appear unrelated to the parent organization’s stated policy goals. Super PACs poured more than $57 million into Illinois races, including two that ranked among the top 10 House primaries targeted with the most outside spending ever. “It absolutely should be a priority, particularly the issue of transparency,” Bean said of outside spending. “Kat’s campaign is being funded with tens of thousands of dollars from right-wing donors to Republicans and Donald Trump,” said an ad the group spent about $800,000 on.
