The Congressional Black Caucus PAC donated to white incumbent Rep. Frank Mrvan (D-IN) over his black Republican opponent, Jennifer Ruth Green.
Mrvan received $5,000 from the CBC‘s PAC on Sept. 28, bringing his reported total at the end of the month to $1,871,504, according to Open Secrets. Some $536,000 of that money has been raised by other similar political action committees. In 2018, Mrvan raised $40,174, ultimately earning Indiana’s 1st Congressional District seat.
Green, on the other hand, has raised $2,333,590 during her first political campaign against the one-term incumbent. She raised more than Mrvan in the third quarter, with around $1.4 million, while Mrvan garnered less than $940,000.
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“The Congressional Black Caucus is with the politicians and lobbyists, and their career politician ally Frank Mrvan. America’s poorest communities are proof Frank Mrvan and the CBC care more about power and helping themselves than helping the people of northwest Indiana,” Green said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “It’s sad.”
The CBC donated $465,000 toward the 2022 election cycle, with the majority of its political contributions, over 76%, going to candidates. It spent slightly less on House candidates than it did on Senate candidates.
Mrvan replaced former Democratic representative Peter Visclosky, who had been in Congress since winning his first election in 1984.
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Mrvan’s campaign did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
