Political mailers are landing in Prince George’s County voters’ mailboxes that come from a new Super PAC with an innocuous, aspirational-sounding name: Jobs 1st PAC.
But the mailers, supporting an array of Democratic candidates for county council, are being paid for by developers and business leaders.
Developers are prevented from making direct contributions to Prince George’s County councilmembers.
So far, according to filings with the Maryland State Board of Elections, the Jobs 1st PAC has raised about $90,000 and spent about $66,000, on mailings and polling. The biggest donors — at $25,000 each — are developers with huge holdings in suburban Maryland: Enterprise Office Park Inc., a company owned by William Chesley, a five-decade real estate powerhouse, and Edward St. John, head of St. John Properties.
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