Posted on 04/02/2022 5:55:36 AM PDT by Dacula
A transportation company owned by Mike Collins, a Republican running for Congress in Georgia’s 10th District, received a $920,000 loan in April of 2020 as part of the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The next year Collins personally loaned his political campaign a total of $465,000, none of which has been repaid by the campaign.
So what?
Not illegal.
Was he “entitled” to the PPP money? Did he have a real business with employees? Did he keep employees on the payroll? Those are the main criteria.
Is this just a set of facts, or is there evidence that the man has done something wrong?
A business and a man’s personal wealth are often completely independent situations.
Unless there’s evidence of impropriety, then so what?
Was he “entitled” to the PPP money? Did he have a real business with employees? Did he keep employees on the payroll? Those are the main criteria.
Simple solution. The guy could change his party affiliation to Democrat and claim that he is a victim of conservative coercion.
Just another Republican that doesn’t follow the letter of the law like all of his pristine Democrat counterparts./s
Please don’t shoot at the messenger. I just posted an article that is relevant to the 10th Congressional District race.
His real crime is that he is a Republican... /s
If his transportation company was entitled to the loan then what is the problem? Let’s focus on real scandals, like the Biden Syndicate.
DemocRATS do this all the time. What the hell is the problem and why do the “media” RAT turds think that it’s their business?
Reading the title a little more closely, this was a legal loan to a transportation company. The two alternatives for such as loan are 1) repayment or 2) forgiveness by the SBA. The third, outright fraud, is not alleged nor proven. One might well then place this "news" under the subheading of "hit piece" politics.
https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-10/PPP%20--%20Loan%20Forgiveness%20FAQs%20%28October%2013%2C%202020%29.pdf
What is true of this 10th district race is that there are many candidates for both parties angling for this seat.
What is true is that Collins and other Republicans running for the same seat will be facing a Democrat. Lots of names on both lists. This "news" seems a "placement" by a competitor, because that's how politics works.
As to Valiant News itself, "Valiant News is owned by Targeted Media Marketing, LLC." It was registered as a domain on 2022-02-22, so it is so it is about six weeks old.
Yup
The start of the takedown of Republicans before the midterms. You are going to see a lot of stories like this.
I guess the left considers it a scandal if you don't act like the left.
One might well then place this “news” under the subheading of “hit piece” politics.
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Many articles/stories can be fitted into that subheading. JMO
...oh, he's a Republican?
...send the FBI.
Agreed. I must be such a dinosaur. I had to look up what JMO meant.
Here’s what Collins should do: simply give the money back. . . AND THEN . . . go to a Buddhist temple in downtown Los Angeles for about 15 minutes, eat a hurried lunch, and gather up several hundred thousand dollars.
I would normally think that monks have little money for political campaigns, but in 1996 Al Gore showed how wrong and naive I was. He and he DNC gathered up about $400,000.
Oh, and monks as a religious organization cannot legal donate to a political campaign. What’s cool, is you use the money to win the election, and then if caught, you say “Sorry! Here’s the money back.” (That’s what happened here.)
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