A New Reach Out Effort by Rand SuperPAC to the Ebonics Crowd?

Fresh from a battle with prosecutors in Des Moines, Iowa, where Jesse Benton, thanks to Roscoe, escaped the big house, Jesse is apparently steering a new reach out effort at the Rand SuperPAC, America's Liberty.

A new Liberty page is up.

Where Dr. Ran Paul is featured instead of Rand and where the case for Rand is made this way (emphasis, incredibly, in original):

"It’s time for some different."

Well, it is different:

 -RW

Jesse Benton Just Got a $79,681 Check From a Rand Paul SuperPac

That didn't take long.

Less than 24 hours after Jesse Benton was acquitted on charges that he lied to the FBI, America's Liberty PAC, which supports the Rand Paul presidential campaign, paid out $79,681 to Jesse, according to a filing the PAC made today with the FEC.

It is still not clear, of course, whether Jesse is completely out of the woods with regard to government prosecution in the Kent Sorenson case. The Department of Justice has still not said whether they will seek new charges against Benton after the judge threw out some earlier charges because prosecutors when they presented their case to the grand jury that originally indicted Benton, used testimony Benton made during a proffer .

 -RW

Here's the filing. Titan Strategies is Jesse's company.

SCHEDULE E

INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES

FILING FEC-1030994

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Committee: AMERICA'S LIBERTY PAC

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Titan Strategies

4003 Woodstone Way
Louisville, Kentucky 40241

Purpose of Expenditure: Direct Mail
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: Rand Paul 
Office Sought: President
State is New Hampshire in District 
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 10/20/2015
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 10/20/2015
Person Completing Form: Elizabeth G Newberry 
Date Signed = 10/22/2015

Amount Expended = $39840.50
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $0.00

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Titan Strategies

4003 Woodstone Way
Louisville, Kentucky 40241

Purpose of Expenditure: Direct Mail
Name of Federal Candidate supported or opposed by expenditure: Rand Paul 
Office Sought: President
State is Iowa in District 
Date of Disbursement or Obligation = 10/20/2015
Date of Public Distribution/Dissemination = 10/20/2015
Person Completing Form: Elizabeth G Newberry 
Date Signed = 10/22/2015

Amount Expended = $39840.50
Calendar YTD Per Election for Office Sought = $0.00

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Subtotal of Itemized Independent Expenditures = $79681
Subtotal of Unitemized Independent Expenditures = $0
Total Expenditures This Period = $79681

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Generated Fri Oct 23 16:48:05 2015

UNREAL McConnell Paid Jesse Benton More Than $500K

WaPo is out with a story on some amazing disclosures on the payments made by Mitch McConnell to Rand Paul's nephew (through marriage), Jesse Benton, which  included payments to Benton after he resigned from the McConnell campaign. Here's Sean Sullivan at WaPo:

When Jesse Benton signed up to manage the reelection campaign of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), it was seen as a win-win. Good for McConnell, who needed help broadening his appeal in the tea party. Good for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who needed a boost in the establishment.

Turns out it was good for Benton, too. At least, financially speaking.

A review of campaign finance records shows Benton made more than $500,000 working for McConnell from the beginning of 2013 through the end of last month. The former top Ron Paul and Rand Paul strategist made most of his money from McConnell's campaign. The rest came from work he did for McConnell's leadership PAC.

McConnell's campaign paid Benton's consulting firm more than $402,000 during the last 21 months for strategy consulting and research, records show. That's substantially more than a typical Senate campaign manager takes home in salary in a comparable period.

As liberal blogger Joe Sonka, who dug into the numbers earlier this week, pointed out, McConnell's campaign paid Benton's firm days after he resigned this summer. Benton, as Sonka noted, has also been paid by the Kentucky Republican Party.

To put Benton's compensation into further perspective:

-- It's more than double McConnell's annual $193,400 Senate salary.

-- It's more than double what President Obama campaign manager Jim Messina made in 2012.

-- It's more than Obama's annual $400,000 salary...

McConnell started the 2014 election cycle facing the prospect of a tough primary. The tea party was eager to unseat him. So he tapped Benton's deep ties to the tea party movement to help navigate the rough waters.

It worked out. Rand Paul -- eyeing a 2016 White House bid and on the lookout for new allies -- endorsed McConnell.