Will billionaire election spending end the Democratic majority on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court?

[RandySF]

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dougherty claimed that Musk has already spent $1 million on the upcoming race at an endorsement meeting earlier this year, but campaign finance reports for the upcoming election won’t be available until September. But he’s not the only one with deep pockets and a desire to oust Democrats.

Jeffrey Yass — Pennsylvania’s richest billionaire with a net worth of $59 billion thanks to his investments in TikTok — is poised to spend millions of dollars against the three Democratic justices.

Yass has spent over $75 million on elections in Pennsylvania since 2017, making him the largest spender in Pennsylvania politics during that time, according to All Eyes on Yass, a website dedicated to tracking his spending.

Last year, Yass spent over $11 million through his network of political action committees (PACs) supporting Attorney General Dave Sunday’s campaign against former Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.




https://keystonenewsroom.com/2025/05/21/pa-supreme-court-2025-election/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Worried about that

Money wins in PA because the voters are so easily influenced. Literature is everywhere, yard signs. It even makes it into post offices, and I don't mean in the US mail. I mean on display.

Dems need to make money the issue. Don't let billionaires buy elections!

[Deminpenn]

2. DePasquale was a terrible Dem nominee for Atty General

The Dem AG primary field was quite crowded. DePaquale won with a plurality mosty, imho, based on name recognition from his service as state Aud Gen. After he was term-limited out of that office, he ran unsuccefully against Perry in PA-10 and lost. He should have left his political career at that and not run for Atty Gen as there were better, more qualified Dem candidates. His campaign was the definition of sad sack.

Yass might have spent a lot of money promoting Dave Sunday, but even if he hadn't, Sunday would've won.