Showing posts with label campaign financing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campaign financing. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2023

Rep. James Clyburn's campaign paid $86K in "management" fees to his grandson


South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn (D) gave his grandson over $86,000 in "campaign management" fees along with more than $50,000 in rent to a company his son-n-law ran during the 2022 midterm elections, federal election filings reveal.

Clyburn paid his grandson, Walter A. Clyburn Reed $7,000 a month starting in December 2021 up until the 2022 election, although one month netted the Reed a mere $3,500, Federal Election Commission data shows

Do the math: from October 2021 until November 2022, Reed received $86,500 in "campaign management" fees for his grandfather's campaign. Not bad if you can get it, eh?

Other federal filings show that Clyburn's campaign paid 49 Magnolia Blossoms LLC $57,500 in rent. Clyburn's son-in-law, Walter A. Reed, is the registered agent of the company, according to South Carolina business records reviewed by Fox News Digital.

Coincidence or nepotism? You make the call.

It is legal for federal politicians to use campaign money to pay family members, but ethics experts generally frown upon the practice, mostly because it's unethical.

Clyburn's campaign did not respond to media requests and told Brain Flushings 'tran-in-the-street' to go have sex with they-self. 

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Ilhan Omar's creds questioned by her hometown paper

Frick and Frack the Comedy Act
Did she marry her brother or didn't she? Did she get him into the USA under false pretenses, which is a crime? Are her anti-Semitic tropes because she hates Jews or is she just kidding around? What does her hairdresser really know about her hair? Why doesn't she protest her home country's anti-gay laws? Why did she laugh when talking about terrorist groups and why does she want lighter sentences for ISIS terrorists?

Yes, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is facing lots of questions and criticism and on Wednesday was the recipient of a blistering editorial in the Star Tribune, a Minnesota newspaper. All of this comes in the wake of her recent campaign finance violations -- with the paper suggesting that it was just the latest "misstep by the first-term congresswoman."

"U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is back in the news again, and not in a good way," the editorial began. "The former state representative who won a seat in Congress last fall continues to be dogged by past missteps, this time eight violations of Minnesota campaign-finance law that will cost her nearly $3,500 in reimbursements and civil penalties."

And because she is clearly as guilty as Hillary and her magic server, she will pay back the money.

Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled last week that the lovely and talented anti-Semite owed her campaign committee almost $3,500, as well as a $500 civil penalty to the state, after using committee funds for personal travel and help on her tax returns.

As the Star Tribune noted, the state's Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board reported that Omar and her latest husband filed joint tax returns while she was married to another man who is alleged to be her brother.

Minnesota law only allows spouses to file jointly in civil marriages whereas Omar filed with a man with whom she was only married in "faith tradition." And Minnesota law frowns upon sibling marriage as it produces offspring with pointy heads known as future Democrats.

"It is even more disturbing, therefore, to learn that among the board’s latest findings ... Omar, for two years running, filed joint tax returns with a man she was living with but not legally married to [but was probably having a sexual relationship with]. Complicating matters further, she was legally married to another man at the time," the editorial read.

The paper also called on Omar to disclose whether she benefited materially from the filings. "That is something that voters, who are obliged to follow tax laws no matter how painful, are entitled to know," it read.

But it doesn't say anything about benefiting materially in sharia law, and that's the law she follows when it suits her, and taqiyya [google it] when it doesn't.

The incident was just one of many issues -- including collecting allegedly illegal speaking fees -- that could prompt an investigation, the paper said, not mentioning how Omar's speech sounds somewhat bizarre in its pitch and cadence.

"Omar’s political rise has been marred by a series of unforced errors," the paper also said, "including intemperate remarks and tweets earlier this year that were widely perceived as anti-Semitic. Every month seems to bring a fresh problem."

The main reason her remarks and tweets sound anti-Semitic is because she uses anti-Semitic tropes and attacks Israel, not for its policies, but for its people. That's kind of, you know, anti-Semitic.

But have hope, she's planning to join the Black-Jewish Caucus and if accepted, will be its first anti-Semite. However, it's a new organization and there may be more anti-Semites to follow. There are plenty in the Democratic Party to choose from.


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Monday, April 1, 2019

BREAKING: Ilhan Omar facing campaign finance violation probe

Former Fox News reporter and now on staff with Sinclair Media, James Rosen confirmed Monday morning that authorities recently finished investigating two complaints concerning campaign finance violations against the execrable Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).

Both complaints against the anti-Semitic Omar were filed last year by Republican Minnesota state lawmaker Rep. Steve Drazkowski. He claims Omar spent thousands of dollars on a divorce attorney and personal travel expenses. If this is true, it is likely that nothing will happen and Omar will continue hating Jews and being supported by her fellow Democrats.

“In referring Omar to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, Drazkowski alleged that Omar improperly spent close to $6,000 in campaign funds for personal use, including payments to her divorce attorney and for travel to Boston and Estonia,” says the report.

Rosen notes that Drazkowski’s filings follow “an earlier episode in which Omar repaid $2,500 for honoraria she received for speeches at colleges that receive state funding, a violation of ethics rules for Minnesota lawmakers.”

“I had observed a long pattern,” said Drazkowski. “Representative Omar hasn’t followed the law. She’s repeatedly trampled on the laws of the state in a variety of areas, and gotten by with it.”

But is it possible she was following sharia law?

The Republican lawmaker maintained that Omar has been allowed to skate in the face of her controversial actions by strategically using her identity as a shield. Her intersectional 'creds' as a Muslim, and a woman of color gives her victimhood standings that allow her to say anything she wants with impunity.

“There’s a political fear that people have of being called a name, being called a bigot, being called racist, being called Islamophobic,” he said, leaving out sexist and homophobe.

When Omar was questioned about the probe into the alleged finance violations on Thursday, she refused to respond and kept walking and walking. Earlier this year, the Democrat denied the alleged indiscretions, though the complaints were still unconfirmed to the public at the time.

“The Omar Committee’s 2017 year-end report shows several non-campaign disbursements for out-of-state travel for Rep. Omar to attend various events,” reads a notification allegedly from the finance board posted on Drazkowski’s website.

“The information on the committee’s 2017 year-end report does not indicate how attendance at these events would have helped Rep. Omar in the performance of her legislative duties,” another notification says.

The results of the investigations are expected to soon be released, Sinclair reports, but nothing will come of it, one can assume based on past non-outcomes.

Despite her many controversies, Omar has become a key figure for the Democrat Party because of her hatred for Trump, America, Jews and Israel.

The Muslim Democrat has found herself under fire on more than one occasion for past and present comments she’s made about Jews and Israel. In March, for example, Omar used the old trope that Jewish Americans have “dual loyalty” even after she was criticized for past comments that were clearly anti-Semitic.

“Lawmakers must be able to debate w/o prejudice or bigotry. I am saddened that Rep. Omar continues to mischaracterize support for Israel. I urge her to retract this statement and engage in further dialogue with the Jewish community on why these comments are so hurtful,” said Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), who is Jewish.

“Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman!” Omar responded on Twitter. “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee. The people of the 5th elected me to serve their interest. I am sure we agree on that!”

Nobody pledges their allegiance to Israel, as the anti-Semite implied. Supporting an ally, in fact the only ally in the Middle East that isn't calling for global sharia and is a beacon of civilization in the mire of surrounding nations, is not pledging allegiance to the country, but pledging support of that ally. To say otherwise is to again use that anti-Semitic trope that has existed for decades.

Hopefully Omar will receive whatever justice is determined by the probe, but don't hold your breath.


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