How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers

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It wasn’t until the campaigns disclosed their spending details in recent FEC reports that it became clearer how they raised so much money: by paying to borrow another organization’s mailing list.

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
7:14 PM · Jul 5, 2021


BRANDON
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“‘List rental’ was the No. 1 expense…totaling almost $600,000 for each of them…for Hawley & Greene, the cost was unusually high…The top vendor for [them both], LGM Consulting Group, charges as much as 80%, according to a contract disclosed in Florida court records”

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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1. That's awesome! Most of their donations to them went to this consulting group. Didn't do a thing to

advance their imaginary supremacy.