Green Mountain Prosperity a political action committee recently formed as an offshoot of Haley Barbour’s Republican Governor’s Association is funneling big money to Brian Dubie.  

It is reported Green Mount Prosperity raised nearly $160, 00 from donations of $100 or more with some of the money having been originally donated to the RGA.  

Some who made their checks out to the RGA have complained that they never intended to give money to this group for a Vermont election race.

The manner in which checks initially made out to the national RGA (and funneled to the new Green Mountain Prosperity PAC) should be listed remains unresolved according to reports.

Nowhere on its July 15 campaign finance filing with the secretary of state’s office does the PAC note that it is an offshoot of the RGA or that its purpose is to help Dubie. The office does have on a file a spreadsheet showing a registration of a "bank designation" in February of "Green Mountain Prosperity PAC (fka[sic] Republican Governors Association – Vermont PAC)."  

Dubie’s campaign denied any knowledge of Green Mountain Prosperity PAC, but welcomed the help.

Here in Vermont in 2004 the RGA was the subject of a superior court injunction forcing it to halt running campaign ads after their funding was thought to have violated the law by failing to register as a PAC and properly report its advertising expenditures.  

It’s worth noting that Dennise Casey, Jim Douglas’s longtime campaign staffer and Deputy Chief of Staff who left in 2009, now works at the RGA.

In the past Virginia gubernatorial race, which may be a model for the Dubie campaign, the RGA funded a last minute attack ad campaign against Bob McDonnell’s opponent.