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NEW: Florida Democratic Senate frontrunner Debbie Mucarsel-Powell hit the campaign trail last week with a Soros-funded dark money group. Comes after she denounced dark money during her only term in Congress as a big problem in Florida politics.
4:54 PM · Jul 12, 2024
--- Quote ---Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Who Called Dark Money a Threat to Democracy, Partners With Soros-Funded Dark Money Group
Dark money group Alianza for Progress seeks to mobilize one million Puerto Rican and 'Latinx' voters for Democrats
Andrew Kerr   
Washington Free Beacon
July 12, 2024

Florida Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell once said dark money was a threat to democracy. But now that she faces an uphill battle to unseat Sen. Rick Scott (R.), Mucarsel-Powell has joined forces with a George Soros-funded dark money group to prop up her campaign.

Mucarsel-Powell, a former one-term congresswoman who once decried dark money as a big problem in Florida politics, attended an event hosted by Alianza for Progress on July 5 to promote her efforts to "retire Rick Scott in November." But Alianza for Progress itself is a dark money 501(c)4 group that seeks to mobilize one million Puerto Ricans and "Latinxs" to elect Democrats across the state.

As a 501(c)4 group, Alianza for Progress isn’t required to disclose its donors to the public. But available records indicate the group is primarily funded by the Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center. Since 2020, Alianza for Progress has raised nearly $2.75 million from all sources, according to its tax returns. During that same timeframe, the Open Society Policy Center committed just over $3 million in grants to Alianza for Progress.

Mucarsel-Powell’s collaboration with Alianza for Progress could also throw up roadblocks in her efforts to reinvent herself as a supporter of ICE, an agency that she portrayed as being run by racists during her first campaign for Congress in 2018. That version of Mucarsel-Powell would presumably agree with Alianza for Progress’s lobbying efforts to overturn a 2019 state law that banned sanctuary cities and required localities to partner with ICE.

But in February, Mucarsel-Powell penned an op-ed for the Sun Sentinel promoting ICE’s "critically necessary" efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigrants and accused Scott of knee-capping the agency for voting against a failed Senate immigration bill that would have allowed for more than 1.8 million illegal crossings annually. ...
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