Turns out MTG's vitriol and stupidity DON'T serve her well... go figure

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-reports-her-first-fundraising-loss/ar-AAWgFe2?ocid=U483DHP&li=BBnb7Kz

The campaign committee for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reported its first-ever net loss on Friday, posting a $314,000 deficit over the first three months of 2022 while additionally revising previous contribution totals down by more than $100,000.

About half of that loss is represented in fees to Donald Trump’s top Jan. 6 attorney and a security detail that protected Kyle Rittenhouse during his trial last year.

While Greene has always traded steep fees for slightly higher returns, she’s always managed to come out on top—until now.

Last quarter she sprung a hole in the bucket, as her campaign committee, Greene for Congress, spent about $1.38 million while taking in only $1.06 million in donations. Fundraising costs alone wiped out three-quarters of those receipts.

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I had been harboring the cynical idea that there were too many stupid, hateful people out there that would be willing to give her money. I'm very glad to be wrong about that.

Let's hope this trend continues.

[Roy Rolling]

1. Fraud?

How can she raise a million dollar$ but spend $300,000 more? She took in $1 million but spent $1.3 million.

Not even she is that stupid, something’s wrong.

[niyad]

12. Holdover money from previous fundraising?

[Effete Snob]

18. The article is misleading

She has $3M cash on hand and $500k debt.

The numbers in the OP are just for the last quarter.

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H0GA06192/

[BumRushDaShow]

15. She had to pay lawyers?

(posted in the LBN thread here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2904592)

Judge tosses Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit over mask fines

By Tia Mitchell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
March 11, 2022



WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and two other conservative lawmakers challenging the fines they faced for refusing to wear masks on the House floor. Greene joined U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ralph Norman of South Carolina in filing a court challenge in July hoping to recoup penalties they faced after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through new enforcement rules for an existing mask mandate.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton wrote in a Wednesday ruling that the case had no merit because Pelosi and the staffers who enforced the fines by docking lawmakers pay could not be sued for decisions made in their government capacity. Walton also disagreed with the plaintiffs’ arguments that the mask fines amounted to an illegal reduction in their annual salary. The 27th Amendment prohibits any law from changing members’ compensation before the next election.

Walton disregarded the claim that the mask fines violated the plaintiffs’ First Amendment protections of free speech, which their lawyers claimed should be invoked because the three lawmakers chose not to wear masks as a form of protest. Greene, Massie and Norman have filed an appeal.

(snip)

While Massie and Norman’s protest was limited, Greene continued to show up on the House floor without a mask for the rest of 2021 and into 2022. She eventually accumulated more than $100,000 in fines that were docked from her salary, which is $174,000 a year.

(snip)

https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-tosses-marjorie-taylor-greenes-lawsuit-over-mask-fines/G4UTWBYCXBFQJGF2XGTQ2E7CIU/

(emphasis mine)

[Maraya1969]

27. Is she taxed on the full $174,000? That would be funny since she only got $74,000

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Some of her compatriots opted to raise their federal income tax withholdings

so that their "salary" was $1, to skirt the fines -

Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde evading House fines, GOP colleague says


By Melanie Zanona, CNN

Updated 8:24 PM ET, Fri July 30, 2021


(CNN) Rep. Andrew Clyde, the Georgia Republican who compared scenes from January 6 to a "tourist visit," has found a way to evade the House's mask and metal detector fines, according to one of his GOP colleagues.

Rep. Thomas Massie, who is suing Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the chamber's mask penalties, said Clyde changed his tax withholding in a way that makes it nearly impossible for the House to collect the thousands of dollars in fines Clyde has already racked up for evading the House's metal detector; he could also face fines for refusing to mask up on the House floor this week.

Normally fines are taken out of a member's congressional salary, but Massie says Clyde, who owns a firearms business, "went to payroll and had his federal withholding raised to $11,284 a month. So he only gets $1 of pay." The maneuver is designed to prevent the House from garnishing his wages.

Massie added, "Of course, it all goes to his mask fine. But he'll have to be elected until 3,324 A.D. for Pelosi to collect $15,000 in fines. Then when he files his tax return, he gets all his money back." Clyde's office did not respond to a request for comment. The House Ethics Committee declined to comment.

(snip)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/andrew-clyde-mask-fine/index.html

Of course since then, no media follow-up on THAT (apparently a couple "no comments" was enough to put their "normally (intrusive and unrelenting 'to get to the truth') inquisitive" selves in check.

[Maraya1969]

32. There must be a way to fight this or else anyone who ever has their pay garnished can do it

even if it is for child support. (?)

Besides, can't Pelosi put a lien on his pay and get that money?

[BumRushDaShow]

33. I would think so but...

it's not a "but her emails..." story so.... "nothing to see here" from the press.

The only thing I could find about him and the IRS was this ditty (RW source - https://www.atr.org/irs-loses-fight-over-1m-the-agency-wrongfully-took-from-rep-andrew-clyde/ and a forfeiture case (earlier article on that before the final outcome - https://tennesseestar.com/2021/12/17/georgia-rep-andrew-clyde-a-victim-of-civil-asset-forfeiture-calls-for-new-reforms/)

So he might be cognizant of some loopholes given his 9 year "relationship" with the IRS.

[h2ebits]

36. They'll probably just attach a lien against his tax return refund

and recover the money that way.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. Assuming he does file it "on time"

but we'll probably never know because...

[Effete Snob]

19. Because she started with more than $3M

She raised 1M and spent 1.3M in one quarter, which is what the article says. But the campaign has $3M cash and $500k debt.

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H0GA06192/

[TheBlackAdder]

29. Of the $1M remaining, supposedly 75% went to fundraising. Someone is skimming somewhere.

[Novara]

2. Or ... she can't accept rubles anymore.

[tecelote]

7. That was my thought too.

How many Republican fundraising efforts will fall short due to the lack of Russian backing?

[FakeNoose]

28. Are they giving rubles these days, or maybe that fountain dried up?

Maybe Empty Greene doesn't really have the "base" she'd like us to believe she has.

[Siwsan]

3. Perhaps Covid has taken out a chunk of her supporters

[enough]

4. She's rich enough that this won't hurt her, but it's good to know that her donations

are slowing down.

[Ilsa]

31. She's rich? I didn't know that.

I wonder where her money is from. She isn't smart enough to have earned it.

[sop]

34. Greene's father sold Taylor Commercial, his general contracting firm, to Greene and her husband

in 2002. She and her husband are vice president and president, of the company. Greene was listed as the chief financial officer of Taylor Commercial from 2007 to 2011, but a 2021 Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation determined that she had no significant presence at the company. In 2011, Greene stepped down as CFO and began a CrossFit training gym where she worked as a part-time coach.

[argyl]

41. So she bought a CrossFit training gym and was a part time coach.

Guess that explains her fondness for wearing feminine style wife beaters. To show off them ripped deltoids.
Which aren't even close to ripped.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

5. I hope people are realizing

That politics is not a reality show. There are real life consequences.

[yardwork]

6. I believe that she and others were funded by Putin, and that well ran dry.

Will other billionaires step in to keep the disinformation rolling? Probably.

[dchill]

8. Yep. It's the rubles that couldn't find their way.

[Blue Owl]

9. Greene is in the red

[housecat]

40. has a nice ring to it

[Emile]

10. She needs to spend less time at cocaine fueled sex orgies with Kevin McCarthy and

maybe quit bitching long enough to govern for the people she is suppose to represent.

[twodogsbarking]

11. Wonder who the recipients of the "fund raising costs" were.

[Effete Snob]

17. You can look that up on the itemized tabs here

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H0GA06192/

[twodogsbarking]

20. Great information. Lots of sizeable payments to AMEX. Thanks.

[Effete Snob]

23. Oh really?

That’s never a good sign unless what the card pod for is also disclosed.

That’s how Duncan Hunter and his wife got busted.

[twodogsbarking]

25. Oh really?

[Effete Snob]

46. Yup

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/congressman-duncan-d-hunter-pleads-guilty-stealing-campaign-funds

According to the indictment and other publicly filed documents, Hunter and his wife both recognized that campaign funds were being spent on personal activities. For example, after returning home from their Boise and Las Vegas vacation, Duncan and Margaret Hunter discussed how the campaign card had been declined as the family had “racked up a $600 minibar…and more charges at Caesars…” as well as a $200 family breakfast, the “kids room service” and pool drinks, and gift shop purchases. And, despite falsely telling the campaign treasurer that the various charges related to their 2015 Italy vacation “were mostly military/defense meet related,” Margaret Hunter emailed a friend that “Italy was amazing. Truly our best family trip so far. Like that saying ‘if traveling was free you’d never see me again’!”

[twodogsbarking]

48. That is why I questioned the AMEX charges.

I am a retired CPA

[niyad]

13. Funding Traitor**'s 6 January attorney and the murdering thug kyle's

security team??? How are those legitimate campaign expenses??

[gristy]

38. My thought, also n/t

[kozar]

14. She overplayed

Her hand. A ( let’s be honest) fairly nice looking woman who never in her life probably heard the word no. Then she got over confident, and opened her mouth, loudly , and way too many times. She could have kept quiet and milked her looks in Georgia for many years. She went for “ right now” which is what she has known her whole life.
And when she is voted out, maybe this time or next, she will scramble to Fox, AON etc, and become the next Sarah Palin, struggling to feel important.
And the rednecks in her district will vote for the next good looking “politician”
Disclaimer!! I lived in Tn when Blackburn started, I’ve seen this before.


Koz

[niyad]

22. I see two truly nasty, not nice-looking, women in the two mentioned here. But I know what you are

saying.

[Effete Snob]

16. That's one quarter

She has $3M cash on hand:

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H0GA06192/

[Pluvious]

21. At least she's still got her "Public Servant" salary...

Oh wait.

[tblue37]

24. Maybe some businesses that automatically donate to GOP have decided she's bad for business.

[efhmc]

26. May not be the place for this question but someone here always has the answer so here goes:

I read a thread on DU a while back about concentrating out contributions on races where the candidate has a good chance of winning. There was a promise that we would se that list soon. Did I miss it or not released yet? Thank you.

[Qutzupalotl]

43. I believe that thread was from brooklynite.

I have not seen a list of winnable races posted here, but I might have missed it. I vaguely recall that poster recommending giving to groups like the DSCC and DCCC, who can respond quickly to a changing race rather than a scattershot approach based on emotion or message. He cited McGrath, who was far behind, raised $43 million because people hated her opponent McConnell, and still lost. He says that money was wasted. He's not wrong.

[efhmc]

44. Thanks. Searched his journal and did not find it but may not be available yet.

[demtenjeep]

35. Still think she's

The planter of those pipebombs

[efhmc]

42. Nope. She does not have nearly the amount of ability or courage it took to do that.

All blow and no show.

[Effete Snob]

47. I know, right

She's a bigoted, ignorant, blowhard moron, but by night she's some kind of explosive technician.

[TeamProg]

39. Thanks for posting. n/t

[Initech]

45. Anyone who goes on Infowars or Steve Bannon should be flagged as a security risk.