The Laurie Story: OWNED by Chuck Schumer AND a $100 million+ out-of-state Super PAC?

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Candidates can tell you until they are. blue in the face that YOU COME FIRST after they get elected.  However, *YOU* didn’t open YOUR wallet and dump multi-millions into said candidates’ races.  (*You* are likely a distant second.)

Check out what we’ve found to be happening in North Carolina’s First Congressional District GOP primary:

A political group backed by leading AI companies and innovators is starting to dip into its formidable war chest to back candidates in competitive primaries in this year’s midterm elections.

Fox News Digital has learned that the group, called Leading the Future, is infusing half a million dollars to launch an ad blitz in support of former Defense Department official Laurie Buckhout, who is running in next month’s GOP primary in North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in the race to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Donald Davis.

The ad buy is the first major campaign spending by Leading the Future, which is backed financially in a personal capacity by OpenAI President and Co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna, as well as Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that is a major investor in OpenAI.

Leading the Future announced recently that it and associated organizations had raised over $125 million in commitments and had over $70 million cash on hand at the start of this year.

The groups say the infusion of money into the North Carolina primary, where early voting begins next week, is just an appetizer. […]

Sooooo –  what do THE Don and his team at 1600 Penn think of all this?  Let’s see:

The White House is threatening some of Silicon Valley’s richest and most powerful players over their efforts to spearhead a $100 million midterm strategy to back candidates of both parties who support a national framework for artificial intelligence regulations.

In August, the group of donors launched a super PAC called Leading the Future. It did not consult with the White House before doing so, according to a White House official.

What is especially frustrating to White House officials is that it plans to back AI-friendly candidates from both political parties — which could potentially help Democrats win back control of Congress — and one of the leaders of the new super PAC is a former top staffer to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“Any group run by Schumer acolytes will not have the blessing of the president or his team,” a White House official familiar with Trump’s thinking on the matter told NBC News. “Any donors or supporters of this group should think twice about getting on the wrong side of Trump world.”

“We are carefully monitoring who is involved,” the official added. [….]

Hear that, Laurie? 

It sounds like Silicon Valley’s concerns will outweigh those of New Bern.  (Speaking of —- has Laurie figured out where New Bern IS yet?)