Empower Mississippi's PAC has spent money in Republican state legislative primaries, seeking to elect candidates the group views as more likely to pass legislation expanding opportunity for Mississippians.
[2] In 2015, Empower Mississippi's PAC supported challengers who unseated four Republican House incumbents in DeSoto County.
[2] Empower Mississippi targeted the incumbents, including Republican representatives Wanda Jennings and Pat Nelson, because they opposed school choice measures backed by Empower Mississippi.
[10][11] Empower Mississippi's PAC spent approximately $300,000 on 18 state legislative primaries in 2015.
[11] From 2015 to 2019, Mississippi Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves received $45,000 from the group; in 2019, Reeves supported a successful last-minute amendment to a state budget bill that appropriated $2 million for the state's Education Scholarship Account private school voucher program.