Posted on 07/19/2022 10:05:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The swamp is getting greedy these days.
Foremost among the numerous catastrophes that Joe Biden has presided over is inflation, which has risen to a 40-year high.
This has caused prices of fuel, energy, food, and all everyday commodities to skyrocket, wreaking irreparable havoc on the budgets of regular people. Most citizens have no option but to postpone or even cancel purchases they can avoid.
However, these hassles seldom apply to the denizens of Washington, D.C.
The Daily Caller reported that Democrats such as House majority whip James Clyburn of South Carolina and Connecticut rep. Jahana Hayes are using their campaign fund to enrich family members.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that Clyburn paid his grandson Walter A.C. Reed a sum of $21,000 in campaign funds since April 1.
Reed describes himself as Clyburn's campaign manager on his Twitter account and is a salaried employee of the Clyburn campaign. He has been paid $58,500 by the "Friends of Jim Clyburn" campaign committee since October 2021.
The campaign committee also paid $7,500 in rent on April 29 to 49 Magnolia Blossom LLC, controlled by Clyburn's daughter Jennifer Clyburn Reed as well as Walter Reed. The Clyburn campaign has paid the Magnolia Blossom more than $70,000 since March 2020.
Democrat billionaire Tom Steyer's failed 2020 presidential campaign also paid Magnolia Blossom more than $45,000 for office space.
FEC records also revealed that Clyburn has paid over $260,000 to family members since 2010 via the "Friends of Jim Clyburn" campaign committee.
He's not the only one.
Next is Democrat Connecticut rep. Jahana Hayes.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
These are just the small fish. The larger fish are harder to pin down, but 10% for the Big Guy does not seem to be shocking Brandon supporters.
Spreading the wealth? /s
I see nothing wrong with paying family for work done . . . unless it's illegal to DO so.
Pigs at the trough. Politics is, and will continue to be, a Criminal Enterprise.
I’m beginning to watch American Thinker . . . just sayin’
They don’t even try to hide it anymore because they know the crooked libtard DOJ won’t do anything 🤪
Maxine Waters ripped off her campaign fund bigtime and didn’t even blink an eye
it is not that family works for you that is the issue. It is the amount they are paid, usually for tasks they have no qualifications for or for a task that is never meant to do anything anyway.
Now one could say “who cares” it only hurts the candidate, but that still misses the point. The intent was always to siphon the funds off for personal gain as opposed to support an honest run for office.
Simply put it is legal graft and an abuse of the good will of those donating.
NOT breaking/shocking/bombshell? 😂✌
“If my brother, wife, child or other family member works for my campaign, I’ll pay him out of campaign funds . . . it’s a job.”
‘Works” is the key word there.
So too, what experience do they have doing the “job”?
If you give your 10 year old a million dollar salary out of campaign funds to smile on camera, that woud certainly be a questinable use of campaign funds.
What is legal for politicians would get prison time for most others.
Oligarchs gonna oligarch.
And there’s no oligarch like an American oligarch. Just ask Nancy and her drinking-man husband.
The Big Fish get high paying jobs for their kids in various corporation.
Republican voters have the same problem with never-Trumpers. Sometimes I think the ‘24 debates should be between DJT and one or 2 of them. Show the country who the real enemy is. Everyone already knows where the democrats are coming from.
Put it out there Don. Any republican who supports the Democrat nominee will be offered the free publicity. 60 minutes only.
I would wager that this is a general Swamp thing, and that the Dims just don’t bother to hide it since the media has their back.
But...but...but...that’s ray cist!
yeah but everyone knows as long as you are a Democrat you can do WHATEVER you want and get away with it
Looks like the corruption dam has broken.
Now DC is no better than Russia and the Ukraine, and only a little better than all the Third World shttholes.
Anybody with the ‘D’ behind their name is a part of the longest running, most corrupt crime cabal in history. They control all three branches of govt and members of the Repugnant Congress simply go along to get along.
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