new hampshire where this afternoon mitt romney is set to officially endorse scott brown in his bid to unseat first term incumbent senator jeanne shaheen. this comes just a day after the brown campaign announced they had raised roughly $2 million over the past three months. numbers a bit smaller than the $5 million brown raised in the second quarter of the 2012 race when he was running for re-election in massachusetts against democrat elizabeth warren. the rally will be in stratham, new hampshire, at the same farm where romney announced his presidential campaign in 2011. romney hasn t had to travel in new hampshire, he s just hanging out at his summer home. let s head down to arkansas where the race has already been pretty heated up. politico reports this morning that a pro-cotton super pac is set to launch a brand new $1.1 million tv ad later this month. the same group the government integrity fund that spent close to $2 million on a positive set of ads back in april highlighting cot
you re not going to answer it, are you? great seeing you. would you have supported the auto bail out? great seeing you. so josh is going to need some help unseating an incumbent. boy, oh boy is he getting some help. it s 5-1 in ohio. when one of those outside groups started running ads for mr. mandel back in may, we knew the group was called the government integrity fund. that s all we know. but now, aha. we have some new information. we now know this fund is run out of a republican lobbying firm that employs one of josh mandel s former staffers. we know this because of a rule change at the fcc. it used to be if you wanted to
for example did just that. last week they posted online this political advertising form filled out by the government integrity fund. remember them? and that s how we learned about the republican lobbying firm that the government integrity fund is connected to. if you want to check out who is spending what on political ads in your area go to stations.fcc.gov. you click on the icon with the star in it. the public file and then you can check out who is running ads in federal races and state races and local races as well as those supposedly noncandidate issue ads in your town t that s where you will see the spending from the outside groups rather from the candidates themselves. we never had a way to get the information before but now we can get it. we now know who is associated with this group that is returning these ads but we still don t know who s bank rolling
hand over to you the papers from the thing they maintain that s called the public file. you would have to do that for all the local stations in your area in order to understand who was spending what in your media market in this election. so while this information is technically available, it was so cumbersome to get that mvgs, it as well not have been available at all. it was not available in a way it could be utilized to figure out who was funding the elections. now the fcc has changed that rule. the local stations public their public file online. the nbc affiliate in cincinnati for example did just that. last week they posted online this political advertising form filled out by the government integrity fund. remember them? and that s how we learned about the republican lobbying firm that the government integrity