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Gavin Newsom sparks outrage for soliciting donations to LA wildfire victims via his super PAC
NY Post ^ | 1/12/25 | Ryan King

Posted on 01/12/2025 11:41:51 AM PST by Libloather

California Gov. Gavin Newsom sparked fierce outrage for soliciting donations to victims of the deadly Los Angeles wildfires via his super PAC, which pushed users to add their personal information to a Democratic fundraising site.

Newsom, 57, posted a link on X to californiafirefacts.com, a website set up by his campaign committee, in response to what he claimed was misinformation on the wildfires.

But the site urges users to give money to the California Fire Foundation and links them to a module from ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform. The ActBlue donation box says the money is being raised by Campaign for Democracy, Newsom’s super PAC.

“Your donation will go directly towards supporting firefighters and the communities they serve, including direct financial support to impacted residents,” the site says.

The California Fire Foundation, which helps firefighters, their families and victims, allows users to donate directly without relying on a service like ActBlue to make those transactions.

Users who donate via Newsom’s fundraising appeal are also automatically signing up for text messages from his super PAC, if they provide their phone numbers.

“Not a cent of these donations go to Gavin Newsom or his PAC. Gov. Newsom is proud to have raised $450,000 for the Fire Foundation in small-dollar contributions during these fires and is grateful for the people across the nation who have come together to help Californians in their time of need,” a spokesperson for Newsom told The Post.

Observers online also quickly pointed out that ActBlue takes a portion of all donations as a processing fee. ActBlue claims to “charge a flat rate of 3.95% on each donation” to “cover the processing cost.” The Post has contacted ActBlue for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: donations; la; newsom; wildfire
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Time to cash in.
1 posted on 01/12/2025 11:41:51 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Keep talkin’, Newscum....please, just keep talkin’ so folks can get to see right through all that hair gel.....whadda puke.


2 posted on 01/12/2025 11:46:42 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Libloather

A government for moral and religious people. The democrat party is neither.


3 posted on 01/12/2025 11:47:17 AM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
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To: Libloather

Money Laundering. It’s pretty much all they know how to do. They certainly don’t understand what government is supposed to be doing for people.


4 posted on 01/12/2025 11:47:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Libloather

Grubby communists never let a crisis go to waste.


5 posted on 01/12/2025 11:49:29 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: Libloather

His warehouse stocked with hair gel was burned up.
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6 posted on 01/12/2025 11:52:01 AM PST by twister881
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To: Libloather

Never let an opportunity to rake in the big bucks go to waste. - Old Far Left Turd Roller saying.


7 posted on 01/12/2025 11:54:00 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Florida Felons "convicted" in New Yawk Kangaroo Courts by bozos make the best presidents!!!)
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To: Libloather

“Your donation will go directly towards supporting firefighters and the communities they serve, including direct financial support to impacted residents, while keeping our personnel in the lifestyle they have become accustom to, thanks to your generous donations” the site says.


8 posted on 01/12/2025 11:58:30 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Libloather

Somebody needs to remind Newsom of this fact... Politician’s do not recover from this sort of disaster. Bush was in his second term when Katrina hit and he’s still blamed by many for that sh*tshow... Even though it was the governor and mayor who were mostly to blame. Luckily for Bush... He wasn’t running in the next election. Luckily for Bush... He wasn’t running in the next election.

If he were he likely would have lost... Newsom’s hopes and dreams of ever being President went up in the flames of these LA arson fires. He’ll never live this screw up down... Ever!


9 posted on 01/12/2025 11:58:42 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Libloather
LOOKS LIKE HIS SINGING CAREER IS TOAST AS WELL!


10 posted on 01/12/2025 11:59:02 AM PST by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: Libloather

Somehow, this is Trump’s fault...


11 posted on 01/12/2025 11:59:30 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Libloather
“Your donation will go directly towards supporting firefighters and the communities they serve, including direct financial support to impacted residents,” the site says.

If this turns out to be the lie it looks to be, somebody belongs in prison for fraud.

12 posted on 01/12/2025 11:59:51 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather
Wait'll people across the country figure out that Newsom's Negligence has driven the price of building materials into the stratosphere.
13 posted on 01/12/2025 12:00:21 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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"The California Fire Foundation, which helps firefighters, their families and victims, allows users to donate directly without relying on a service like ActBlue to make those transactions.
14 posted on 01/12/2025 12:03:49 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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The California Fire Foundation, which helps firefighters, their families and victims, allows users to donate directly WITHOUT relying on a service like ActBlue to make those transactions.

Newscums' ActBlue PAC has NO control over direct donations to the above!

15 posted on 01/12/2025 12:07:42 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Libloather

can we please pray for his unraveling and permanent exile to some vineyard he owns the hills of Napa. 🙄


16 posted on 01/12/2025 12:08:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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How your tax dollars land in politicians’ campaign pockets via “ActBlue.”

Reference: FEC data gathered by truthteller @OKeefeMedia linked one Democrat donor’s name to an astonishing “830 donations” to “ActBlue.” The Democrat donor monitors her bank statements, so she knew what she had actually donated, and was outraged, seeing her name falsified by ActBlue on federal documents.

How ActBlue pulls off massive fraudulent Democrat donations:
<><>they collude w/ politicians to setup federal money laundries, for example,
<><>Biden Lends Billions in “Climate Funds” Before Election
<><>Biden DHS gives Millions of tax dollars to “Sanctuary Cities,”
<><>Haiti gets billions in USAID
<><>Biden hands billions of tax dollars to Zelensky
<><>Biden-Harris give well over $1 billion in federal benefits to Haitian migrants
<><>then collusion puts a percentage of the “do-good” federal money in offshore bank deposits
<><>crooked legerdemain manipulates the deposits into the ActBlue data base,
<><>they then falsify FEC documents
<><>Actblue lists the money as having been “donated” by eligible donors,
<><>ActBlue does this without the knowledge or consent of the listed donors.


17 posted on 01/12/2025 12:13:50 PM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: Libloather

Is the California fire foundation legit? If not then what is a good org to donate to?


18 posted on 01/12/2025 12:20:21 PM PST by SteveH
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To: SteveH; Liz
"Is the California fire foundation legit? If not then what is a good org to donate to?"

Just go to Charity Navigator. Plug your interest into their Search for their lists. They are the most reliable regarding how much of your donations goes to the actual charities. They show you by percentages. You need not go to individual charities to figure out their business models, their executive salaries, nor how much actually goes to the victims.

They busted Wounded Warriors for their over-sizeded salaries. Wounded Warriors has since changed their business model.

19 posted on 01/12/2025 12:40:06 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: Libloather

Yup, because everyone knows that the democrats will loot it.

There are church based relief efforts.

Convoy of Hope is one. Run by Assemblies of God, 100% of the donations go for their intended purpose, as it is supported by the denomination. The overhead is already taken care of.

https://convoyofhope.org/


20 posted on 01/12/2025 1:10:30 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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