U.S. Sen. John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, has received tens of thousands of campaign donations from employees at Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest meat companies.
Iowans with deep pockets when it comes to making campaign donations are sending some of their money out of state, even to places where their contributions may seem like a drop in the bucket.
Individual political donors from Iowa have pumped more than $43 million into political races the past three years, but knowing the impact of those donations may be hard to determine. The reason: the growth of anonymous donors and Super PACs.
