McCarthy leadership PAC made payments to Luntz firm

[DonViejo]

Glenn Kessler 5 hrs ago

“Frank [Luntz] has been a friend of mine for more than 30 years. … I’ve rented a room from Frank for a couple of months, but don’t worry, I’m back to — going back to where I normally am, on my couch in my office. But, yeah, we pay fair market rate.”

— House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in an interview on “Fox & Friends,” May 4

When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was first asked about living in a luxury apartment owned by pollster Frank Luntz — after being criticized for it by Fox News host Tucker Carlson — he emphasized that the two men have a long-term friendship.

McCarthy described Luntz as a friend he first met in 1994, when he was a staff member for then-Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.). “Frank’s a friend I knew for 15 years before I ever got in,” McCarthy said, apparently referring roughly to when he became a member of Congress in 2007.

At the time of his remarks earlier this month, McCarthy’s emphasis on a friendship seemed logical. There appeared to be no business relationship between the two men, except for a poll conducted by Luntz in 2000 for yrock.com, which McCarthy started when he was national chairman of the Young Republicans.

But Federal Election Commission filings show that the leadership PAC controlled by McCarthy — Majority Committee PAC, or McPAC — paid one of Luntz’s companies, FIL Inc., nearly $40,000 in late 2020, just before McCarthy began renting what he described as a “room” in the recently renovated apartment.

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[tanyev]

1. Oh, that makes sense. $1500 a month from Kev's pocket and $40K a year from donor's pockets.

How many luxury apartment buildings in the D.C. area does Frank Luntz own?????

[C_U_L8R]

3. Sounds like tax evasion and donor fraud.

[Dream Girl]

2. Watch this space?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. At $3,300 a month that better be a hell of a nice room.

[mahina]

5. What other members of Congress? If it's against the bylaws

Of the HOA to rent for less than 6 months and rent the whole apartment, what happens next, a warning notice from the HOA?

Why else would Luntz build a gigantic dormitory?

Read the rules, Frank! Whoops.

I hope this blows all the way up.

[mahina]

6. Also

K and R

[mahina]

7. Also

The speaker lives on his office sofa without a campaign donor funded luxury graft condo? How pitiful was that statement?