Hey Raja, I've got a warehouse full of guac bowls that you can sell if you want them. Please clap.
Posted on 03/19/2026 6:53:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., is facing online mockery after his Senate campaign’s election night watch party charged customers exorbitant prices for water, despite claiming to champion affordability issues.
Krishnamoorthi, a five-term House lawmaker, narrowly lost to Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in a bruising Democratic primary Tuesday night. Krishnamoorthi supporters had to pay nearly $13 for water and $22 for a glass of wine at an event at a Chicago hotel while watching the returns come in.
Online observers noted the irony of the steep prices as Krishnamoorthi’s Senate campaign was one of the most prolific fundraisers in the country.
The congressman reported a haul of more than $30 million during the campaign, far outpacing nearly all Senate candidates across the country. Krishnamoorthi also benefited from the cryptocurrency industry’s main super PAC, Fairshake, spending aggressively in an attempt to take down Stratton.
“Dude hired three pollsters (that we know of) and is still charging $13 for a water,” Democratic pollster Adam Carlson wrote on X.
“Thanks, volunteers, for working for me. Now pay $13 for water,” Republican strategist Collin Corbett wrote on social media. “I guess, based on how Raja treats his staff, this shouldn’t be surprising.”
“That’s worse than some stadium prices,” Politico Playbook wrote in response to the $13 water.
Even a popular Chicago bar account mocked the congressman’s cash bar prices.
“I’m professionally and personally horrified,” the account wrote.
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Hey Raja, I've got a warehouse full of guac bowls that you can sell if you want them. Please clap.
And it didn’t even come with his guacamole recipe. 😥🤣🤣🤣
Raja is a weasel. And despite being up huge in the polls a few months ago he managed to lose to Fatboy Pritzker’s handpicked puppet, who is a certified moron.
Corruption comes with Democrats as a no extra cost option.
No wait, EVERYTHING associated with that corrupt, inept, and criminal party has a cost. Death to Democrats. (Don’t be offended, since DemocRATs support the pretend religion that calls for Death to America.)
Probably got the water for Free ,LOL
aFfOrDaBiLiTy is coming from the 1984 wing of the DNC. They promote it while raising the cost of everything. How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
If it’s at a major high-rent hotel they make they organization sign a contract. Normally that means hotel hospitality has exclusive food/beverage rights. Which they take full advantage of to charge these exorbitant prices.
Not saying the Demonrat couldn’t have influenced the terms of the contract to reflect “affordability” values. The fact that he didn’t just proves it’s all just words (aka: lies) to try to win voters.
To be fair, those prices are set by the hotel - in many cases, if you use their space, you have to use their food and beverage services.
A flat of 36 bottles of water is $3.99. He grossed $468.00.
I’m amazed how quickly Indians are getting into high political power here in the US.
I got SICK of seeing his campaign commercials, like, every 10 minutes when I had the tv on. I thought he would win the primary for sure. I am SO glad he didn’t.
I’m shocked that that people in the article are shocked that a liberal pol is a hypocrite.
In one of them, a supporter says, "you can call him Miraraja, but I like him...." Apparently, somebody spent a lot of money on those early ads. A cynical person like me would think that maybe the USAID or welfare fraud money ran out when everybody else started in. Or channel 7 raised the rates when the official Chicago election season started.
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