Charles Davis has a very good article over at the Daily Beast in which he tries to track down where some of the money went that Jill Stein raised during the campaign, and after for that silly recount con. Well of course, there are some pretty big questions as to where it went. Maybe when Trump has his annual performance review with Putin, he can ask Putin to help poor Jill out a bit with a few thousand Twitter bots getting people to contribute even more.
From the article:
In June, The Daily Beast reported that the the U.S. Green Party candidate’s campaign, which raised $7.3 million for recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, had in 2017 stopped disclosing its monthly spending with the Federal Election Commission. Later that month, the Jill Stein for President committee filed a slew of reports that reveal spending on lawyers who are not trying to get inside any voting machines.
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In May 2018, the Stein campaign also paid $9,325 in attorney fees to Miller & Chevalier. In August 2017, Politico described it as “a boutique firm in Washington” that had taken on the case of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman.
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the Campaign paid for Dr. Stein’s trip to Russia.
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Campaign manager David Cobb, according to the latest FEC filing, earned $11,280 in May 2018. That’s up from $7,520 a month before, and three times what he was making during the 2016 campaign.
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Matthew Kozlowski, Stein’s “Director of Compliance,” was also paid $10,740 in May 2018. That’s up from $7,160 in April. During the 2016 campaign, Kozlowski served as Stein’s “Director of Information,” earning $3,840 in September of that year.
The Stein campaign’s 2016 “Director of Operations,” Kendall Ferguson, earned $5,760 in May 2018 as a “Finance Associate.” Ferguson made just under $3,100 in August 2016.
Carl Romanelli, a former Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, also made $3,000 in May 2018 for “Recount Organizing Services.”
I’m shocked, simply shocked that a person who was questioned by the Senate Intelligence committee for any knowledge she had about the Russian attack on our elections, and who with Michael Flynn sat at the head table with Vladimir Putin, would have questionable campaign expenses.
We often criticize the Trumpites for some of the, shall we say questionable decisions they make with regards to false prophets, but we on the left need to do some self examination before we start claiming everyone in the Democratic party is corrupt and we’ve finally found a real true savior.
For all of those who thought Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were the saviors of free speech and personal privacy, and those who think Glenn Greenwald epitomizes investigative journalism, and Jill Stein was going to save us from environmental catastrophe, and the millions of people in the Democratic party are all establishment corporatists, can you come back to reality now? Or at least think about the binary choices we have to make in upcoming elections to save our democracy and millions of people from the attack by GOP fascism, and stop making it harder for the rest of us by making it easier for the fascists.
RESIST!