Alex Kotch reports in Sludge that a businessman and Republican megadonor bankrolled an obscure Texas-based super PAC that usually backs Republicans, spent $100,000 to help a Green Party candidate in the November Congressional election. Estée Lauder heir Robert Lauder donated $100,000 to conservative super PAC Fight for Tomorrow on Oct. 18, the first day super PAC donors could donate money without having their identities revealed until after the elections. Fight for Tomorrow then spent nearly all of that money on digital ads, mailers, and phone calls supporting Steve Greenfield, a Green Party candidate. Greenfield was a little known candidate against the winner, Democrat Antonio Delgado, and incumbent Republican John Faso. "The only explanation is that the last-minute ads were an unsuccessful attempt to peel away enough Democratic voters from Delgado in order put Faso in the win column once again," Kotch writes. Greenfield has called the Fight for Tomorrow spending “a dirty trick,” and says that all PACs “must be legislated out of existence immediately.... All over the country a handful of billionaires donate by the tens of millions every year not merely to support the candidates of their own preference, but to distort the campaigns of others, who are powerless to compete with the reach their money can buy. I spent $3,000 on my campaign. It took me six months to raise and spend that money, and it was only 1/33rd of what Lauder spent in a single day to completely misrepresent me to a much wider audience—and one I had no interest in targeting.” Read the full story in Sludge.