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The RGA bought Phil Scott’s TV campaign ads but who bought him flowers?

Today WCAX’s Neal Goswami re-tweeted Governor Scott’s message to Vermonters about the upcoming Montpelier tree lightingand he suggests the flowering poinsettia “looks like it was from Arizona.”RGAsflowering gov

Scott’s message was likely sent from Arizona where the Vermont re-elected governor flew to attend the post-election gathering of the Republican Governors Association (RGA). Although the RGA invested less in the Scott campaign this year — it contributed almost $3 million in 2016 for his first successful race for governorthe GOP organization still spent a bundle. According to Seven Days, the conservative-funded super PAC spent $826,366 on Scott’s re-election advertisingmore than any other single group, the bulk of it on pro-Scott television ads.

So while it isn’t clear if those really are flowering Arizona poinsettias, Governor Scott is posing next to, we do know who is behind the RGA and what they bought: almost all of  Scott’s blooming television campaign advertising.

Here’s Seven Days list from the IRS of the conservative donors to the RGA bundle spent on Phil Scott’s 2018 campaign ads:RGA$

No agendas here to worry about, amiright? You know the Koch Brothers,CEO prison corp. and buddies are  just kicking in a few hundred thousand here and there to keep Phil Scott’s poinsettias blooming. No strings attached, obviously.