Family-Funded Super PACs Are Boosting Relatives’ Campaigns

Jim Bognet’s congressional campaign is very much a family affair. It’s based at the offices of his father’s contracting business in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles south of Wilkes-Barre. He tapped his cousin early on to be the campaign’s finance chairman.

And now that same cousin, along with Bognet’s father and another family member, have helped finance a super PAC spending on his behalf.