Karl Rove's super PAC received $300,000 from the parents of Alaska Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, a fact that Rove has not disclosed in numerous recent media appearances discussing Sullivan's race.  

The Center for Public Integrity reported that in a recent amendment to an August 29 Federal Election Commission filing, American Crossroads disclosed it received $300,000 “from Thomas and Sandra Sullivan, the parents of U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan of Alaska.” Crossroads changed the filing after the Center raised questions about the donation, which was originally misidentified as coming from the Glenmede Trust Company.

Bloomberg reported that Thomas Sullivan “said he doesn't know with certainty that the funds will be spent on his son's race ... 'That will be up to the discretion of Karl Rove,' said Sullivan.” Rove is the co-founder and an adviser to Crossroads. The group is reportedly planning to spend $5.5 million to defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich.

That Rove's group received money from Sullivan's parents and Rove is reportedly involved in directing their money has gone undisclosed by Rove in his Wall Street Journal column and Fox News appearances at least four times in recent weeks. 

In a September 18 column for the Wall Street Journal, Rove wrote that Democrats are outspending Republicans in key races including in Alaska, where “Democrats have spent $6.4 million, Republicans $3.6 million.” He added that Republicans are being attacked on social issues and “Planned Parenthood has reacted with such fury to Republican Senate candidates in Alaska, Colorado and North Carolina saying they support making contraceptives available over-the-counter.” The column ended with a plea for Republicans to “open their wallets to candidates” or else “they should prepare for two more years of Majority Leader Harry Reid.”

Rove, a paid Fox News contributor, appeared on the September 22 edition of The O'Reilly Factor and criticized Begich for airing, then pulling, an ad about Sullivan's time as attorney general. Rove similarly appeared on the September 21 edition of Fox News Sunday, where he criticized Begich for the ad and said the race is likely to take a “pro-Sullivan tilt.” On September 12, Rove appeared on Happening Now and said Begich was distancing himself from President Obama on foreign policy but that would be a tough sale with voters.

Fox News routinely fails to disclose Rove's stakes in the races he discusses (Rove's appearances on The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Sunday, and Happening Now didn't mention Crossroads). And The Wall Street Journal published Rove's September 18 column despite it being a clear fundraising call to groups like his own.