Posted on 11/27/2021 2:10:36 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Kenneth Pennington, a top digital strategist for Beto O’Rourke, had a simple plan.
Mr. O’Rourke would announce his bid for governor of Texas early on a recent Monday morning and then Mr. Pennington would break the news via email to Mr. O’Rourke’s lucrative list of supporters, a loyal following that had already raised tens of millions of dollars for Mr. O’Rourke in his past bids for the Senate and the White House.
But Mr. Pennington soon noticed something troubling: a parallel wave of look-alike emails from groups completely unaffiliated with the O’Rourke campaign that were designed to capitalize on the Texas Democrat’s moment. The emails used subject lines, sender names and URLs embedded with phrases like “team Beto” and “official Beto.” And in most cases, none of the money these emails eventually raised went directly to the campaign.
Mr. O’Rourke still brought in more than $2 million from 31,000 donors, the largest 24-hour sum that any new candidate has announced this year, his campaign said. But for Mr. Pennington and the rest of the campaign, the nagging question was how much more they might have hauled in if other Democratic groups hadn’t been so busy siphoning off their share.
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This is something to watch out for. If you get an email solicitation make sure you know who you're donating to.
It might be best to go to the candidates webpage to donate.
Whoever the scammer is....
Would probably be a better governor than Beta would be.
Shhhhhh, don’t tell the Beto moonbats. Let them get scammed ( actually they’re getting scammed either way).
Is scamming liberal Democrats even a crime? It certainly shouldn’t be.
“...siphoning off their share.”
What “siphoning”? If it’s their share then they’re entitled to it, aren’t they?
Agree
What could be better than Dems skimming off beta?
There is no Beto. There is Robert Francis
Wasn’t me as far as you know.
There is no Robert Francis, only El Puta Politico O’Rourke.
It’s a scam even if it is from Beto.
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