GOP Firm Tied To Trump-Endorsed WinRed Fundraiser Tool At Center Of Minnesota Dispute
WASHINGTON ― Republican consultants with links to the Donald Trump-endorsed WinRed fundraising platform have sparked an angry dispute within the Minnesota GOP, which saw fully half of its online donations flow to the suburban Virginia firm.
Of the $202,126 raised by the Minnesota Republican Party online, $103,607 went to WinRed, with most or all of it passed on to IMGE LLC, based in Alexandria, Virginia, even though that company had little to do with much of the money raised, according to an email from Max Rymer, a Republican National Committee member from Minnesota.
“Since October of 2019, the Republican Party of Minnesota has given over 50% of their online donations to something marked as ‘WinRed Credit Card Processing Fees’ ― even if the vendors did not earn that commission through fundraising efforts,” Rymer wrote in a note to state GOP officials, which was posted to Facebook on March 23 by a party activist. “This included large dollar online givers, who in some cases had 100% of their donations taken.”
He described how state party chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan, after listening to his questions on Feb. 15 about the contract with IMGE, then went to RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to accuse Rymer of trying to “destroy” WinRed. Rymer wrote that he was startled to get a call two days later from McDaniel and RNC lawyer Richard Walters. “I received this call while getting my children out of the bath and, to be honest, these were the last two people I ever expected to hear from,” he wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/winred-trump-minnesota-fundraising-fees-002800558.html
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