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 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 them. we probably won't know that at all. not for this election, anyway.