How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion

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[TigerClaws]

And remember when Beyonce was going to do a concert?

David Giglio @DavidGiglioCA Beyoncé was given $10 million of donor’s money by Kamala Harris to speak for 2 minutes and leave.

To me, this is fraud. I cannot imagine people were donating to a political campaign believing this was where their money would go.

[Drew68]

I can’t wait until campaign and White House insiders writes their tell-all books about Biden’s growing dementia and Kamala’s shambolic run to replace him.

[ryderann]

Did Doug make any trips out of the country, or spend time with a bonded courier?

[j.havenfarm]

I heard they spent over $230,000 feeding Lizzo when she’d show up to a rally

[RckyRaCoCo]

The story of how Harris pocketed record sums while failing to gain support from voters will be studied by campaigns for decades to come.

Maybe the Federal Election Commission (FEC) should take a peek also.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Reinforcing the stage to support Lizzo cost $100,000 at every venue where she appeared.

[Frank Drebin]

She didn’t plow through anything. They pilfered it. She’s picking out tile right now for her new estate home on the coast of California.

[SpaceBar]

An unsurprising microcosm of how they would govern e.g. no fiscal responsibility or intelligence.

[TigerClaws]

This story makes no sense:

The New York Post cited Harris campaign insiders who revealed that the election-eve concerts heavily impacted the campaign’s budget. To cut costs, a performance by Alanis Morissette was canceled. The seven-concert lineup included Jon Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh, Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, and 2 Chainz on November 2.

Reportedly, the idea for the concerts came from Stephanie Cutter, an Obama campaign veteran. Although the artists performed for free, other expenses like advance teams and production costs required payment. According to sources, the campaign aimed to “spend to zero,” but overshot, leading to frustration among vendors still awaiting reimbursements.

https://thedailyguardian.com/reports-harris-campaign-in-debt-after-funding-concerts-in-key-swing-states/

Why - if the performers are there for free - did they have to cancel anyone?

And where did the $20 million go??? I mean, rent a venue, security - Secret Service does that - so where did the money go?

Beyonce got 10 million but everyone else was free?

Oprah’s company got over a million.

I think those celeb singers got cash for being there.

Tens of thousands of donors begged for $30 in text messages and this is where their money went?

[Right_Wing_Madman]

"Advertising is a pretty important source of information for swing voters," Todd said. "It no doubt matters, but it's not enough."

I saw maybe 200 Democrat ads on YouTube in the past three months and almost all of them were pleas for money, never any talking/selling points on why someone should vote for them. It was a never-ending cycle: raise more money to run more ads to beg for more money.

[TigerClaws]

Related:

Kamala Harris blew six-figures on building the set for ‘disastrous’ Call Her Daddy podcast interview

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14061451/kamala-harris-six-figures-call-daddy-podcast-interview.html

[Jonty30]

Her advisors were overpaid, suggesting a probable back door deal.

[dfwgator]

Kamala Harris blew ...

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She needed the money!

[LegendHasIt]

Plus, didn’t she ‘inherit’ almost a billion dollars .... I think it was $830 million from the Biden campaign to start out with??

Not that I believe that the Biden crime family would actually turn that kind of dough over to anyone, but wasn’t that the ‘logic’ that they used to run Kamala in the first place when the Democrats dumped Biden? I seem to remember the excuse that Kamala was the only other one who could use that money since it had been donated to the “Biden-Harris Campaign”, and if they ran anyone else, that ‘Biden Campaign’ money would have to be somehow returned to the original donors, but that it could legally be given to Harris ?

Am I remembering this correctly?

[SpaceBar]

An orgy of money laundering, graft, and kick-backs disguised as ‘campaign expenses’.

[No name given]

Fools and their money are soon parted.

[catnipman]

VP of pet products to CEO: JB, we have a problem ... we just finished spending $5,000,000 developing this incredible new dog food and everybody loves it ... and so far, we’ve spent $25,000,000 advertising it ...

CEO JB: So what’s the problem?

VP of pet products: Dogs refuse to eat our new dog food ...

[Bullish]

David Giglio @DavidGiglioCA Beyoncé was given $10 million of donor’s money by Kamala Harris to speak for 2 minutes and leave.

I'll bet 5 mil or so of that was kicked back to Kamala herself. A tidy little grift, and I hope she gets nailed for it. Keep an eye out for Kamala to suddenly buy some ritzy Malibu property.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Liz]

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