The Federal Election Commission tracks independent expenditures for each congressional district.
A few Super PACs are keeping political ads – most of them negative – on the air in Tennessee through Election Day. The biggest spending is in the 6th Congressional District.
Nashville health care investor Andy Miller has spent more than $230,000 attacking Rep. Diane Black of Gallatin. He’s supporting Lou Ann Zelenik, who narrowly lost to Black in the Republican primary two years ago.
ANDREW MILLER: “I honestly believe with my entire heart that she will not be bought out by special interests.”
REPORTER: “Are you a special interest?”
ANDREW MILLER: “I suppose to some degree I am, but my interests are to see the primary process find a more level playing field.”
As the incumbent, Black has been able to raise nearly a million dollars from political action committees. She’s also gotten her own Super PAC help from the American College of Radiology.
Independent expenditures have also been made this election cycle in East Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District.
No race this election cycle tops the outside money dumped into a contest in West Tennessee two years ago. Businessman Robert Kirkland spent more than a million dollars on his brother’s failed bid for Congress.
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