Lincoln Project accused of mutiple scandals - funds raised for self-enrichment

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-lincoln-project-facing-multiple?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MDE2NTUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjMyNDc1NzYxLCJfIjoiMFBybjUiLCJpYXQiOjE2MTMyMTQ1MzQsImV4cCI6MTYxMzIxODEzNCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTEyODY2MiIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.8tuDkfNbBoKEobGCtvKuycvjBH3gr9k4RNigcEPF5-U

 

The group is accused of multiple scandals. It advertised in liberal media markets to raise money rather than advertising to pry away Trump voters as promised. It was mainly a self-enrichment scheme. Also, one of the founders is accused of sexual misconduct and others accused of helping him cover it up.

“For the collection of GOP consultants and former officials, being anti-Trump was becoming very good for business. Of the $90 million Lincoln Project has raised, more than $50 million has gone to firms controlled by the group’s leaders…. The … Project adopted a strategy, much like the Trump campaign they criticized, to mask how much money they earned.”

 

 

Charlie Cooper

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Insight on Trump campaign secret spending

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/02/jan-6-protests-trump-operation-paid-3p5mil/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jan-6-tp35q-02%2F09%2F20&utm_source=1+News+Notifications+%28Article+Alert%29&utm_campaign=e4bf93cde9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_26_08_46_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_776aca4f13-e4bf93cde9-212295006

 

Trump campaign paid $3.5 million to organizers of the January 6 protest. But Jared Kushner and Lara Trump were also involved in a secret spending mechanism that may conceal more such payments.

 

“… the American public may never know the full extent of the Trump campaign’s payments to organizers involved in the protests…. because the campaign used an opaque payment scheme that concealed details of hundreds of millions of dollars in spending by routing payments through shell companies where the ultimate payee is hidden…. Trump’s 2020 campaign and joint fundraising committee … spent more than $771 million through [a] secretive limited-liability company [that] was created by campaign aides and members of Trump’s inner circle to act as a “clearinghouse” to pay vendors, concealing the campaign’s transactions with those vendors. ”

 

 

Charlie Cooper

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New grassroots group in WV fights against money corruption in politics

https://wvcantwait.com/end-election-buying-now/

 

“We held more than ten thousand voter-to-voter conversations last summer. We asked people what they would do if they were governor, what issues kept them up at night.

“There was one answer that came up 5 times more often than anything else. It came up more than roads, or schools, or safe water, or overdose deaths, or jobs.

“The number 1 issue? Political corruption.

“As one of our union buddies put it: “If you aren’t at the table, you’re on the menu.” And we’ve been on the menu for too long.

“We see it everywhere. 88% of West Virginians oppose giving public money to private charter schools, but the bill passed. The public relations guy for the controversial Rockwool facility in Jefferson County is also the House Majority Leader. Last May, instead of funding a state Black Lung Pension Fund for miners and a nursing home in Beckley for veterans, lawmakers voted to give $60 million more to out-of-state coal executives.”

 

Charlie Cooper

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Bottom 90% of Income distribution in U.S. lost bigtime

https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html

 

“from 1975 to 2018, the difference between the aggregate taxable income for those below the 90th percentile and the equitable growth counterfactual totals $47 trillion.”

 

Charlie Cooper

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Small donors ruled 2020; will that change post-Trump? • OpenSecrets

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/02/small-donors-dominated-2020-will-that-change-in-midterms/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=small-dons-20-02%2F03%2F20&utm_source=1+News+Notifications+%28Article+Alert%29&utm_campaign=e1df05957e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_26_08_46_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_776aca4f13-e1df05957e-212295006 

Can the For the People Act save America?

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/01/deconstructed-hr1-save-american-democracy/

 

In this Podcast, a partisan case is made that the Dems can stop Republican gerrymandering and make the nation more democratic by making it more Democratic.

“…a sweeping reform bill that aims to make voting easier, gerrymandering harder, and generally rein in the out-of-control minoritarianism that has come to characterize American democracy.”

 

Charlie Cooper

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Publix gets big COVID-19 vaccination contract after donating to Florida Governor

https://popular.info/p/publix-accountability

 

“Publix responded … by donating $50,000 to DeSantis on December 7 and another $50,000 to DeSantis on December 31…. Publix's large donation to DeSantis also has raised eyebrows because, in January, DeSantis made Publix the sole distributor of COVID-19 vaccines in Palm Beach County. ‘I’m absolutely, absolutely disgusted that the governor of this state has 100% taken the authority to administer the vaccination program out of the hands of the public health department and given that authority to a corporate entity,’ Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay said.”

 

Charlie Cooper

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