There is a certain crossroads...pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:46 am I don't think anyone's figured out exactly how McConnell got elected in the last election.
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This is just beautiful. Just like Donald bring ripped off, the NRSC thought 'hey, we can do that too!"
* Sources who refused to be identified said at least $4 million of the American Express bill was spent on Pup-Peroni, donuts and other expenses for an unknown tactical security force that originally was thought to be part of the NRSC, but turned out to be a pro-democratic force that took their money and escaped into the night.
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Much much more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... p_politics‘It’s a rip-off’: GOP spending under fire as Senate hopefuls seek rescue
A cash crunch at campaigns and the NRSC set off a panic as GOP candidates emerged from bruising primaries playing catch-up in polls and advertising
By Isaac Arnsdorf August 19, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. EDT
Republican Senate hopefuls are getting crushed on airwaves across the country while their national campaign fund is pulling ads and running low on cash — leading some campaign advisers to ask where all the money went and to demand an audit of the committee’s finances, according to Republican strategists involved in the discussions. In a highly unusual move, the National Republican Senatorial Committee this week canceled bookings worth about $10 million, including in the critical states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona. A spokesman said the NRSC is not abandoning those races but prioritizing ad spots that are shared with campaigns and benefit from discounted rates. Still, the cancellations forfeit cheaper prices that came from booking early, and better budgeting could have covered both. “The fact that they canceled these reservations was a huge problem — you can’t get them back,” said one Senate Republican strategist, who like others spokes on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. “You can’t win elections if you don’t have money to run ads.”
The NRSC’s retreat came after months of touting record fundraising, topping $173 million so far this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission disclosures. But the committee has burned through nearly all of it, with the NRSC’s cash on hand dwindling to $28.4 million by the end of June. As of that month, the committee disclosed spending just $23 million on ads, with more than $21 million going into text messages and more than $12 million to American Express credit card payments*, whose ultimate purpose isn’t clear from the filings. The committee also spent at least $13 million on consultants, $9 million on debt payments and more than $7.9 million renting mailing lists, campaign finance data show. “If they were a corporation, the CEO would be fired and investigated,” said a national Republican consultant working on Senate races. “The way this money has been burned, there needs to be an audit or investigation because we’re not gonna take the Senate now and this money has been squandered. It’s a rip-off.”
The NRSC’s chairman, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, has already taken heat from fellow Republicans for running ads featuring him on camera and releasing his own policy agenda that became a Democratic punching bag — leading to jokes that “NRSC” stood for “National Rick Scott Committee” in a bid to fuel his own presumed presidential ambitions. Other spending decisions, such as putting about $1 million total into reliably blue Colorado and Washington earlier this month sparked fresh questions after the committee turned around and canceled buys in core battlegrounds.
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Democrats are outspending Republicans by more than double in the Arizona Senate race; by almost two-to-one in Nevada and by four-to-one in Ohio, according to the media tracking firm AdImpact. Republicans are also being outspent by about $14 million in Georgia. “Everything came together at once, and everyone woke up like, ‘Oh my God,’” said one Republican consultant. “It’s been an absolutely disastrous two weeks for GOP Senate stuff on all fronts.”![]()
* Sources who refused to be identified said at least $4 million of the American Express bill was spent on Pup-Peroni, donuts and other expenses for an unknown tactical security force that originally was thought to be part of the NRSC, but turned out to be a pro-democratic force that took their money and escaped into the night.
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Much much more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... p_politicsorlylicious wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:57 pm This is just beautiful. Just like Donald bring ripped off, the NRSC thought 'hey, we can do that too!"![]()
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* Sources who refused to be identified said at least $4 million of the American Express bill was spent on Pup-Peroni, donuts and other expenses for an unknown tactical security force that originally was thought to be part of the NRSC, but turned out to be a pro-democratic force that took their money and escaped into the night.
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What the AF did they expect after putting Mr. Medicaid Fraud in charge of their $$?
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Let's be honest. Republicans don't send their best people. They send the child traffickers, their grifters and outright thieves....Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:01 pm What the AF did they expect after putting Mr. Medicaid Fraud in charge of their $$?
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Yearning to breath free.......
...and grift a whole lotta cash from the pockets of the credulous...
I'll see myself out...
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If'n I recall correctly, tfg ran out of spending money in August 2020. Sticky fingers, perhaps?
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Republicans Demand To Know What Happened To Vanishing GOP Millions
“If they were a corporation, the CEO would be fired,” a GOP consultant said of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, The Washington Post reported.
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Aug 20, 2022, 10:15 AM EDT
A number of Republican strategists and consultants are growing increasingly dismayed about millions of dollars vanishing at the National Republican Senatorial Committee — just when the funds are needed most, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Cash at the national campaign fund is dwindling as candidates head into the final stretch of Senate races across the U.S.
“If they were a corporation, the CEO would be fired,” a national Republican consultant working on Senate races told the newspaper, referring to the committee.
“There needs to be an audit or investigation because we’re not gonna take the Senate now and this money has been squandered,” added the consultant, who spoke to the outlet on condition of anonymity. “It’s a rip-off.”
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What do you expect when you KNOWINGLY and WILLINGLY put con-artists and imbeciles in control of your finances?
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All they have to choose from is imbeciles and con artists, so they did good find people to cover both.
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McConnell's adversary gives a thoughtful answer to an anti-abortion heckler. Kentucky deserves someone like Booker.
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Booker is running against Rand Paul, not McConnell.
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I like himraison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:02 pm McConnell's adversary gives a thoughtful answer to an anti-abortion heckler. Kentucky deserves someone like Booker.