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Capito, McSally, Martinez and Love are cited as candidates Women Lead could support. | AP Photos
One of the Republican Party’s most prominent female donors is striking out on her own in an effort to steer more of the GOP’s ample financial resources to conservative women running for office.
Pennsylvania energy executive Christine Toretti, who served as the finance co-chair of the Republican National Committee in 2012, told POLITICO she will head up a super PAC dubbed Women Lead. The organization aims to drum up contributions from other deep-pocketed Republican women, and use them to promote women running across the country in 2014 and beyond.
A longtime member of the RNC who has donated some $ 600,000 to Republican candidates and committees over the years according to the Federal Election Commission, Toretti said she came away from the 2012 election convinced that female donors needed a stronger role in intra-party Republican politics.
Republicans lost women voters by 11 percentage points in the last presidential election, according to national exit polls, and failed to win multiple Senate races where male GOP candidates made comments about rape and abortion that were widely perceived as offensive.
Toretti said at least part of the problem for the party is that women – as well as male donors who care about electing women to federal office – have little power to ensure that their donations are spent on behalf of other women. So, like other prolific givers who were dissatisfied with the results of 2012, Toretti has created a more narrowly-focused political entity to address her concerns.
“There are a lot of women we would meet with who have the capacity to write really large checks, who feel disenfranchised by the party,” Toretti said. “I’m not saying their perceptions are accurate, but they are their perceptions and that makes them real.”
Toretti recalled that as she traveled the country raising money with then-RNC finance chair Ron Weiser, “At a lot of dinners I would go to, I was the only woman in the room and they would assume I was Ron’s secretary.”
“I decided that if I was going to do this again, I was going to do it differently,” she continued. “Really, for me, it’s about getting more women at the table.”
Toretti, 56, took over her family drilling company after her father’s death in 1990, and became a major Republican donor over the following decade. She likened her new effort to an earlier project she has overseen in the Keystone State: the Anne B. Anstine Excellence in Public Service Series, a training program for Republican women who want to run for office.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we’re going to be able to raise the money we need – I’m certainly not interested in funding the whole thing myself,” said Toretti, who was first named to the RNC by then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge in 1997.
The project is still in the early stages. Toretti will have only one adviser on staff at Women Lead at the outset: Courtney Johnson, a former Mitt Romney campaign aide who managed the Women for Mitt outreach effort.
The Pennsylvanian plans to put down seed money for the group and then raise an undetermined sum from other donors, in the “big range” of $ 1 million to $ 10 million.
If many of the specifics of the Women Lead initiative are still to be determined, the group starts out with the blessing of some influential Republicans in Washington – including the GOP’s highest-ranking public official, House Speaker John Boehner.
Capito, McSally, Martinez and Love are cited as candidates Women Lead could support. | AP Photos
One of the Republican Party’s most prominent female donors is striking out on her own in an effort to steer more of the GOP’s ample financial resources to conservative women running for office.
Pennsylvania energy executive Christine Toretti, who served as the finance co-chair of the Republican National Committee in 2012, told POLITICO she will head up a super PAC dubbed Women Lead. The organization aims to drum up contributions from other deep-pocketed Republican women, and use them to promote women running across the country in 2014 and beyond.
A longtime member of the RNC who has donated some $ 600,000 to Republican candidates and committees over the years according to the Federal Election Commission, Toretti said she came away from the 2012 election convinced that female donors needed a stronger role in intra-party Republican politics.
Republicans lost women voters by 11 percentage points in the last presidential election, according to national exit polls, and failed to win multiple Senate races where male GOP candidates made comments about rape and abortion that were widely perceived as offensive.
Toretti said at least part of the problem for the party is that women – as well as male donors who care about electing women to federal office – have little power to ensure that their donations are spent on behalf of other women. So, like other prolific givers who were dissatisfied with the results of 2012, Toretti has created a more narrowly-focused political entity to address her concerns.
“There are a lot of women we would meet with who have the capacity to write really large checks, who feel disenfranchised by the party,” Toretti said. “I’m not saying their perceptions are accurate, but they are their perceptions and that makes them real.”
Toretti recalled that as she traveled the country raising money with then-RNC finance chair Ron Weiser, “At a lot of dinners I would go to, I was the only woman in the room and they would assume I was Ron’s secretary.”
“I decided that if I was going to do this again, I was going to do it differently,” she continued. “Really, for me, it’s about getting more women at the table.”
Toretti, 56, took over her family drilling company after her father’s death in 1990, and became a major Republican donor over the following decade. She likened her new effort to an earlier project she has overseen in the Keystone State: the Anne B. Anstine Excellence in Public Service Series, a training program for Republican women who want to run for office.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we’re going to be able to raise the money we need – I’m certainly not interested in funding the whole thing myself,” said Toretti, who was first named to the RNC by then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge in 1997.
The project is still in the early stages. Toretti will have only one adviser on staff at Women Lead at the outset: Courtney Johnson, a former Mitt Romney campaign aide who managed the Women for Mitt outreach effort.
The Pennsylvanian plans to put down seed money for the group and then raise an undetermined sum from other donors, in the “big range” of $ 1 million to $ 10 million.
If many of the specifics of the Women Lead initiative are still to be determined, the group starts out with the blessing of some influential Republicans in Washington – including the GOP’s highest-ranking public official, House Speaker John Boehner.
A private spokesperson for Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) on Thursday refused to discuss the terms under which a Virginia businessman gave $ 120,000 in loans to the governor and his family.
Earlier this week, McDonnell announced he had repaid $ 124,115.17 to the businessman, Jonnie Williams, whose relationship with McDonnell is currently the subject of a federal investigation.
According to a press release McDonnell issued via his Twitter account on Tuesday, $ 52,278.17 had been repaid for a loan made to his wife, Maureen McDonnell, in 2011, and $ 71,837 had been repaid for two additional loans made in 2012 to a real estate business owned jointly by McDonnell and his sister. The press release indicated that the payments included “both principal and interest.” According to The Washington Post, the original loans from Williams totaled $ 50,000 and $ 70,000.
In response to questions from TPM, Rich Galen, a recently hired private spokesman for McDonnell, declined to provide any further information about how the interest on the loans had been calculated, and whether any written documents exist laying out the terms of the loans.
“I think we’ll stick with the statement as written,” the spokesperson, Rich Galen, wrote in an email.
In his statement on Tuesday, McDonnell apologized for the “embarrassment” the still-ongoing scrutiny of his relationship with Williams had brought to Virginia.
“I am deeply sorry for the embarrassment certain members of my family and I brought upon my beloved Virginia and her citizens,” McDonnell said in the statement. “I want you to know that I broke no laws and that I am committed to regaining your trust and confidence. I hope today’s action is another step toward that end.”
Eric Lach is a reporter for TPM. From 2010 to 2011, he was a news writer in charge of the website’s front page. He has previously written for The Daily, NewYorker.com, GlobalPost and other publications. He can be reached at ericl(at)talkingpointsmemo.com
A feeling of déjà vu permeates the current student loan debate. Just last June, President Barack Obama and Congress agreed on holding the interest rate for unsubsidized Stafford loans at 3.4 percent. But that agreement expires on July 1. If Congress does not pass negotiate another deal, unsubsidized Stafford loan interest those rates will double — meaning more than 7 million students will need to pay $ 1,000 more per loan per year, according to the White House.
Opensecrets.org data shows that the education industry has invested heavily in members of the House and Senate who currently are working on bills to address the issue.
Rep. John Kline‘s proposal, H.R. 1911: Smarter Solutions for Students Act, gained House approval with a vote of 221-198 on May 23. The bill aims to peg subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loan rates to the rates of 10-year Treasury notes plus 2.5 percent — with a cap of 8.5 percent for undergraduate loans. This year, the interest rate would be 4.4 percent according to the Washington Post, but it would increase in subsequent years.
As the House Education in the Workforce Committee chairman, Kline — a Minnesota Republican — has contributors in both the nonprofit and for-profit education realms. For the 2011-2012 election, education was his top industry donor, with individuals donating a little less than $ 200,000 and education PACs donating more than $ 70,000. His top contributor for 2011-2012 was the Apollo Group, a corporation that owns for-profit schools, including the University of Phoenix. In 2011-2012, he was the second top recipient of contributions from the for-profit education industry, receiving more than $ 193,000, and the 10th top recipient of funds from the education industry overall at $ 268,000.
Senate Democrats largely oppose the Smarter Solutions for Students Act and have come up with a couple of their own proposals. S. 909: Responsible Student Loan Solutions Act sponsored by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), would connect the interest rate on Stafford loans to the rate on a 91-day Treasury bill, plus an additional percentage for loan administration costs. The education industry donated more than $ 66,000 to Reed in the 2012 campaign cycle, and more than $ 185,000 to Durbin. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT). The education industry donated less than $ 30,000 to Tierney’s campaign and less than $ 18,000 to Courtney’s campaign.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the S. 897: Bank on Student Loan Fairness Act in early May, with a companion bill introduced the following week in the House by Tierney. The bill, which will enable the Federal Reserve to fund student loans at the same, 0.75 percent rate charged for banks, has found many backers in the education industry. Warren pulled in more than $ 1.2 million from education in her 2012 race — the most expensive in the nation, with more than $ 77 million spent by the two candidates alone. That placed her third among all education industry recipients in 2012. Her top contributors included five universities, with Harvard University ranked third, Massachusetts Institute for Technology ranked fourth, Boston University ranked sixth, University of California ranked seventh, and Brandeis University ranked 16th. Since the bill’s inception, 19 colleges, including Brandeis and MIT, and 14 organizations have supported the bill. These organizations include the American Federation of Teachers, which donated more than $ 15,000 to Warren in 2012.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) also announced the Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act in May, which gives students and graduates the ability to refinance their federal loans at a fixed rate of 4 percent if their rates are currently higher than that. The education industry donated a little less than $ 300,000 to Gillibrand in 2012; she was the 19th top education industry recipient that year.
Obama plans to veto Kline’s bill if it reaches his desk, yet seeks a different solution from those created by Democratic senators. His plan is to link rates to the Treasury’s borrowing costs, but fix the rates rather than reset them yearly. In addition, Obama’s plan would cap student borrowing costs so they would not exceed 10 percent of the student’s income.
Obama was the favorite of the education industry overall in the 2012 campaign cycle, receiving more than $ 21 million. He ranked third with for-profit institutions, which gave him more than $ 79,000 for his last election. His top contributors included six schools within the University of California system, which donated more than $ 1.2 million; Harvard University, donating more than $ 668,000; Stanford University, which gave more than $ 512,000; Columbia University, contributing more than $ 455,000; the University of Chicago, with more than $ 357,000 donated, and the University of Michigan, which provide Obama with more than $ 339,000.
While Obama is advocating for his student loan overhaul to pass, the government is positioned to profit the most if none of these bills are passed and unsubsidized Stafford student loan interest rates double on July 1. In May, the Congressional Budget Office upped its February estimate of what the Department of Education would earn from student loans in 2013 from $ 35.5 billion to $ 50.6 billion. As reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s plan would cost $ 33.4 billion during the next five years, but during the next ten years it would save the government $ 3.1 billion.
As July approaches, those in the education industry will discover whether their investments will yield them much sway over the future of student loan policy.
A feeling of déjà vu permeates the current student loan debate. Just last June, President Barack Obama and Congress agreed on holding the interest rate for unsubsidized Stafford loans at 3.4 percent. But that agreement expires on July 1. If Congress does not pass negotiate another deal, unsubsidized Stafford loan interest those rates will double — meaning more than 7 million students will need to pay $ 1,000 more per loan per year, according to the White House.
Opensecrets.org data shows that the education industry has invested heavily in members of the House and Senate who currently are working on bills to address the issue.
Rep. John Kline‘s proposal, H.R. 1911: Smarter Solutions for Students Act, gained House approval with a vote of 221-198 on May 23. The bill aims to peg subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford loan rates to the rates of 10-year Treasury notes plus 2.5 percent — with a cap of 8.5 percent for undergraduate loans. This year, the interest rate would be 4.4 percent according to the Washington Post, but it would increase in subsequent years.
As the House Education in the Workforce Committee chairman, Kline — a Minnesota Republican — has contributors in both the nonprofit and for-profit education realms. For the 2011-2012 election, education was his top industry donor, with individuals donating a little less than $ 200,000 and education PACs donating more than $ 70,000. His top contributor for 2011-2012 was the Apollo Group, a corporation that owns for-profit schools, including the University of Phoenix. In 2011-2012, he was the second top recipient of contributions from the for-profit education industry, receiving more than $ 193,000, and the 10th top recipient of funds from the education industry overall at $ 268,000.
Senate Democrats largely oppose the Smarter Solutions for Students Act and have come up with a couple of their own proposals. S. 909: Responsible Student Loan Solutions Act sponsored by Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), would connect the interest rate on Stafford loans to the rate on a 91-day Treasury bill, plus an additional percentage for loan administration costs. The education industry donated more than $ 66,000 to Reed in the 2012 campaign cycle, and more than $ 185,000 to Durbin. A companion bill was introduced in the House by Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT). The education industry donated less than $ 30,000 to Tierney’s campaign and less than $ 18,000 to Courtney’s campaign.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced the S. 897: Bank on Student Loan Fairness Act in early May, with a companion bill introduced the following week in the House by Tierney. The bill, which will enable the Federal Reserve to fund student loans at the same, 0.75 percent rate charged for banks, has found many backers in the education industry. Warren pulled in more than $ 1.2 million from education in her 2012 race — the most expensive in the nation, with more than $ 77 million spent by the two candidates alone. That placed her third among all education industry recipients in 2012. Her top contributors included five universities, with Harvard University ranked third, Massachusetts Institute for Technology ranked fourth, Boston University ranked sixth, University of California ranked seventh, and Brandeis University ranked 16th. Since the bill’s inception, 19 colleges, including Brandeis and MIT, and 14 organizations have supported the bill. These organizations include the American Federation of Teachers, which donated more than $ 15,000 to Warren in 2012.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) also announced the Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act in May, which gives students and graduates the ability to refinance their federal loans at a fixed rate of 4 percent if their rates are currently higher than that. The education industry donated a little less than $ 300,000 to Gillibrand in 2012; she was the 19th top education industry recipient that year.
Obama plans to veto Kline’s bill if it reaches his desk, yet seeks a different solution from those created by Democratic senators. His plan is to link rates to the Treasury’s borrowing costs, but fix the rates rather than reset them yearly. In addition, Obama’s plan would cap student borrowing costs so they would not exceed 10 percent of the student’s income.
Obama was the favorite of the education industry overall in the 2012 campaign cycle, receiving more than $ 21 million. He ranked third with for-profit institutions, which gave him more than $ 79,000 for his last election. His top contributors included six schools within the University of California system, which donated more than $ 1.2 million; Harvard University, donating more than $ 668,000; Stanford University, which gave more than $ 512,000; Columbia University, contributing more than $ 455,000; the University of Chicago, with more than $ 357,000 donated, and the University of Michigan, which provide Obama with more than $ 339,000.
While Obama is advocating for his student loan overhaul to pass, the government is positioned to profit the most if none of these bills are passed and unsubsidized Stafford student loan interest rates double on July 1. In May, the Congressional Budget Office upped its February estimate of what the Department of Education would earn from student loans in 2013 from $ 35.5 billion to $ 50.6 billion. As reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s plan would cost $ 33.4 billion during the next five years, but during the next ten years it would save the government $ 3.1 billion.
As July approaches, those in the education industry will discover whether their investments will yield them much sway over the future of student loan policy.
Last week’s collapse of a massive precious metals mine in Indonesia, which killed at least 17 workers, brought unwanted attention to the American company that owns the facility, Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold. But the company is already well-known to many here in Washington: Its top executives, as well as the company PAC, contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars each election cycle to help fuel congressional campaigns. Freeport currently employs at least one former member of Congress as a registered lobbyist, and in the past has employed at least one other.
Freeport-McMoRan, which is based in Phoenix, strongly favors Republicans over Democrats with its contributions. In the 2012 cycle, the company’s PAC and employees gave 80 percent of their $ 382,000 in donations to Republicans. The firm’s favorite lawmaker? Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake. He received the maximum $ 10,000 from the company PAC and another $ 43,000 from employees, making him the largest recipient of Freeport-McMoRan money.
Another major recipient of Freeport-McMoRan cash was David Dewhurst, who was defeated by Ted Cruz in the Republican primary for Texas’ open Senate seat last year. Dewhurst, who was backed by many “establishment” Republican interests, received $ 10,000 from the company PAC and another $ 25,000 from company CEO James “Jim Bob” Moffett and members of his immediate family.
In the House, the top recipient of cash from the company is Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), to whom the company’s PAC gave the maximum of $ 10,000. Boehner is also one of eight members of Congress who owns shares in the company, according to his most recent personal financial disclosure form.
Moffett and other top executives drove a huge chunk of the contributions from company employees. Besides the money to Dewhurst, Moffett and his family were also responsible for $ 33,301 in donations to the Republican National Committee and $ 7,100 apiece to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2012 cycle.
In 2008, donations from the company PAC and employees spiked to $ 595,000. Almost one-fifth of that — $ 112,000 — was in the form of contributions from company executives to the Republican National Committee. The company’s spending on lobbying surged then, too: In 2007, it spent about $ 580,000 and in 2009, it spent $ 720,000 — but in 2008, Freeport-McMoRan spent more than $ 1.5 million pressing its views in Washington.
The company took a strong interest in two bills that were pending that year. One, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act (H.R. 2262), would have imposed new royalties on mining operations on public lands; it passed the House but died in the Senate. The other, the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act (H.R. 6066), would have required companies to disclose to shareholders any payments made to foreign countries in exchange for the extraction of natural resources.
So far in 2013, the company has reported lobbying on legislation affecting deepwater ports and, generally, issues related to taxes. It spent $ 120,000 in the first three months of the year, and had nine lobbyists, including former Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.), on the payroll.
A Maryland man died from a transplanted, rabies-infected kidney from a donor who wasn’t known to have the disease, and the rare death has prompted authorities to treat three others who got organs from the same donor, federal health officials said Friday.
The Maryland man, who died last month, received the kidney more than a year ago. The recipients of the donor’s heart, liver and other kidney are getting anti-rabies shots, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Those patients live in Florida, Georgia and Illinois, the CDC said.
The donor, a 20-year-old North Carolina man, died in 2011 in Florida, where he was training to become an Air Force aviation mechanic, the Defense Department said.
The three other recipients have a strong chance of surviving since they haven’t shown symptoms of the disease, said a rabies expert who successfully treated a teenage girl with rabies in 2004.
“They’re getting a really excellent vaccine. This is the best we’ve got,” said Dr. Rodney Willoughby of Milwaukee.
Public and military health officials said they’re trying to identify people in all five states who were in close contact with the donor or the recipients. Those people might also need treatment, the CDC said. The CDC refused to disclose the identities of the donor and recipients.
In North Carolina, state health officials are recommending vaccine for at least one of the donor’s relatives, the state’s top public health veterinarian said Friday. Fewer than five family members from North Carolina visited the man while he was hospitalized in Florida, Dr. Carl Williams said. Local and state health departments have contacted them and are evaluating their risk.
“What generally happens in human rabies patients that are hospitalized is that there is a lot of close contact, not only from health care workers but from close family because the patient is going to die,” Williams said. The disease could, in rare cases, be transmitted by saliva from a kiss on the lips or tears being wiped away by a visiting mother, Williams said.
Williams wouldn’t describe where the donor lived before moving to Florida, saying even naming the county could identify the rabies victim. Rabies is common in wildlife statewide. How the donor may have gotten the raccoon rabies virus is under investigation, the CDC said.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago confirmed the Illinois transplant was performed there and that its doctors are administering the rabies treatment to that recipient. Illinois Department of Public Health spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said the patient has no rabies symptoms, but began treatment Thursday.
The Defense Department said the Maryland man who died was an Army veteran who had transplant surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. He died in February, Defense Department spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said.
The CDC said there has been just one other reported instance of rabies transmission by transplanted solid organs, a 2004 case in which all four recipients died after receiving tissue from an infected donor. There have been at least eight instances of rabies transmission through transplanted corneas, CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds said.
“Human rabies is very rare in the United States, and so, of course, when we’re talking about organ transplantation, very, very rare,” she said. Rabies is diagnosed as the cause of just one to three deaths per year in the United States, she said.
Rabies cannot be confirmed until after death, by examining the patient’s brain tissue, health officials said. Because there is no rapid test, rabies testing is not routine in organ transplant situations, where every second counts, Reynolds said. Willoughby said such testing could be counterproductive: “To do it right away would probably mean that you throw away most of the organs while they’re testing,” he said.
The Maryland death was announced Tuesday by state health officials. State Public Health Veterinarian Katherine Feldman said the organ recipient had encephalitis, a brain inflammation that can be caused by rabies. Doctors suspected before he died that he had rabies, and they knew about his kidney transplant, but considered a rabies-infected kidney to be a remote possibility, Feldman said.
“This was a very long interval from transplant to onset and there was nothing that screamed, ‘This patient is ill because of his renal transplant,’” Feldman said. The man had had no reported animal exposures, health officials said.
The Florida donor also had encephalitis, health officials said.
The CDC confirmed after the Maryland man’s death that both he and the organ donor had died from the same type of raccoon rabies virus. This type of type of rabies virus can infect not only raccoons, but also other wild and domestic animals. In the United States, only one other person is reported to have died from a raccoon-type rabies virus, the CDC said.
That virus has a typical incubation period of one to three months, although there have been other cases of such long incubation periods, the CDC said.
The donor died at a Florida medical facility. At the time of the donor’s death, rabies wasn’t suspected as the cause and testing for rabies was not performed, the CDC said.
Florida Department of Health epidemiologist Carina Blackmore said investigators don’t know how the donor contracted rabies.
“We are concerned that because of the time that has passed we may not ever know,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Emery Dalesio in Raleigh, N.C.; Brendan Farrington in Tallahassee, Fla.; Tammy Webber in Springfield, Ill.; Jeff Martin in Atlanta; Eric Tucker in Washington; and researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report.
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