How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers

[Nevilledog]

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New financial disclosures show that Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene relied on an email marketing vendor that takes as much as 80 cents on the dollar, and spent big on "list borrowing." That helped them juice fundraising numbers.

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers
Politicians get the veneer of grassroots support, while shadowy consultants get rich.
propublica.org
6:54 AM · Apr 21, 2021

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-josh-hawley-and-marjorie-taylor-greene-juiced-their-fundraising-numbers

Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support for their high-profile stands against accepting the 2020 election results.

But new financial disclosures show that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., relied on an email marketing vendor that takes as much as 80 cents on the dollar. That means their headline-grabbing numbers were more the product of expensively soliciting hardcore Republicans than an organic groundswell of far-reaching support.

Hawley and Greene each reported raising more than $3 million in the first three months of the year, an unusually large sum for freshman lawmakers, according to new filings with the Federal Election Commission. That’s more than the average House member raises in an entire two-year cycle, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. The tallies generated favorable press coverage for Hawley and Greene, and they both seized on the numbers to claim a popular mandate.

Politico called Greene’s result “eye-popping” and “staggering,” a sign that she “appears to have actually benefited from all the controversies that have consumed her first few months in office.” The House voted in February to remove Greene from her committee assignments because of her social media posts that promoted far-right conspiracy theories; racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric; and violence against Democratic leaders.

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[LonePirate]

1. So those numbers are BEFORE paying those vendors 80 cents on the dollar?

Of course the DC media such as the partisan hacks at Politico would run with those big numbers.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. I Just Knew It!

I thought there had to be a way to inflate those numbers.
Especially in the case of the Georgia traitor, she is a powerless placeholder and her raising big funds for her warchest seemed both unlikely & a propaganda tool.
Appears it could be both.

[PortTack]

5. Friendly reminder: if you can give to her dem opponent Marcus Flowers

Never know, a year ago we’d have all laughed at anyone saying we’d have 2 dem senators from GA

[ananda]

3. Typical chicanery from the nazi crowd, I guess.

So they only actually made 20% of what they reported.

!@#$%

[PortTack]

4. FYI: the 10 republican congress ppl that voted to impeach dotard had much better fundraising

Numbers last quarter than they did

[ret5hd]

6. What's stupid funny about this is...

no matter how much they lie, the bank account doesn't. And the bank account is what pays for the re-election campaign.

[soldierant]

7. Just saw this from ProPublica and immediately came here

to see that Nevilledog was, as allways, on it. Thank you.