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NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 08:39 AM Oct 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz's Big Fundraising PAC is Nearly Broke

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/majorie-taylor-greene-matt-gaetz-america-first-pac-broke-trump-hotel-tour/

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz’s Big Fundraising PAC is Nearly Broke
The two firebrands have their own fundraising problems, too.

Russ Choma


𝑅𝑒𝓅𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝑅𝑒𝓅𝓈. 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒿𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝒯𝒶𝓎𝓁𝑜𝓇 𝒢𝓇𝑒𝑒𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑀𝒶𝓉𝓉 𝒢𝒶𝑒𝓉𝓏 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝒶 𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒮𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒥𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝟣𝟩, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟣, 𝒾𝓃 𝑅𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒, 𝒞𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒻. 𝒞𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓎 𝒴𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓀𝒶/𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒪𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝓎 𝑅𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝒶 𝒜𝒫

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz both have a knack for ginning up outrage and stealing headlines. All this sound and fury is assumed to hoover up dollars from the riled up grassroots, but that’s not true, according to the most recent campaign finance filings.

Despite the two spending the summer barnstorming the country on a grand fundraising swing they dubbed the America First tour, (the moniker adopted after scraping the “Angl0-Saxon” caucus), neither Greene nor Gaetz lived up to expectations on the fundraising end. And, just six months after founding it, the joint fundraising committee they launched to drive their tour is nearly broke.
The joint fundraising committee launched to drive the two firebrand’s tour is nearly broke. The PAC has $13,000 in cash.

In its first few months, the Put America First PAC seemed like it was off to a hot start, raising $360,000 in its first two months—but according to new campaign finance filings made by the PAC it now has just $13,000 in cash. Multiple tour stops were cancelled this summer. Gaetz and Greene did hold at least one major event in Iowa in August. Despite attracting big headlines, the rally was, apparently, a financial bust. The group spent $159,000 from July 1 to September 30, and raised just $57,000.

While Greene is definitely more successful—in her short Congressional career she’s raised more than $8.8 million—the most recent numbers filed by her own campaign show her fundraising totals are increasingly eaten up by the costs of chasing donors and paying off the operatives and professional fundraising consultants and vendors that she hires.

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PJMcK

(21,921 posts)
3. Does either one of them do their damn jobs?
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 09:00 AM
Oct 2021

These idiots are professional grifters. They aren't productive politicians.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
4. Yeah, that's the downside to kneecapping social spending...
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 09:02 AM
Oct 2021

at the behest of the 1%. No wonder the Republicans want to do away with democracy.

Javaman

(62,439 posts)
7. That bought awful amount of coke lol
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 09:22 AM
Oct 2021

Par-tay

Who are the bigger morons,m? These two idiots who pissed it all away or the idiots who actually contributed to them?

Either way it’s all gone ad these two grifters are laughing about it

Time to audit their bank accounts

Calista241

(5,584 posts)
8. I agree with him, it will be a circus royal, and will distract the media and everyone else from
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 09:24 AM
Oct 2021

everything else. But we'll also never get Trump if we can't blame him for something. Trump is old and is at the tail end of his life, is it worth it to sacrifice everything else in his remaining years to be able to officially blame him for something?

Manchin and Sinema will gladly drag out the reconciliation bill until next year, when it probably won't happen, if we let Trump distract us.

PortTack

(32,606 posts)
10. For starters they use a fund raising site that takes 80+ cents on the dollar.
Mon Oct 18, 2021, 11:34 AM
Oct 2021

That’s good...hate doesn’t sell as widely as thought.

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