President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

LOL

 

Do you mean Matt Frewer?

Matt Frewer - IMDb

 

Well, he's definitely putting cash into his governor campaign fund. I'm not familiar enough with rules to know if he can transfer that to a presidential fund or if it has to go to the governor's race

 

Dementia Joe....totally out of it.....doesn't know who people are.....

 

They fantasize about being “revolutionaries” and “freedom fighters” but begin throwing tantrums…

This just might be the epitaph written on the headstone of the American empire someday.

 

Florida has a Governor?

 

Literally on the previous page, man.

 

I was trying to find a tweet from Walter Shaub, ethics guy, I will keep looking.

 

New day. New low.

 

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS, a major conservative organization that bills itself as one of the largest grassroots groups on the right, was in fact heavily backed by three ultra-wealthy individuals in recent years, according to internal data reviewed by The Intercept.

The largest donor was Texas billionaire Christopher Goldsbury, who made his fortune selling the salsa company Pace Foods to Campbell Soup in 1994. On September 11, 2019, Goldsbury donated $1 million to the TPP Foundation via wire transfer. According to tax documents, the TPP Foundation took in $1.2 million in revenue that year. Goldsbury had been a TPP member since 2014 and had already donated $20,000 to TPP’s three separate organizations in previous years. Goldsbury did not respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, activity by the group’s members appears to have waned. The Intercept found just 144,000 members marked “active” in the online data, versus claims on the TPP website of a “network of 3 million activists,” of “more than 3 million supporters,” and of “over 3 million patriots.” Data from local chapters show members are clustered in fast-growing areas like Colorado and all along the Sun Belt, from California through Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and Florida. …

Records from the hacked database shed light on its major backers. Now-deceased California real estate mogul Sanford Diller was another billionaire who provided major funding to TPP. According to tax documents, the TPP Foundation took in $106,318 in revenue in 2015. And according to the hacked data, they only took in two donations that year, and one of them was a $100,000 check from Diller. Diller donated another $100,000 in 2016, and $50,000 more in 2017, to the foundation. In 2016 he also donated $150,000 to TPP’s super PAC. The Intercept reported on some of Diller’s foundation donations earlier this year, and late last year ABC News said Justice Department documents implicated Diller in a secret lobbying scheme to trade political donations to entities associated with former President Donald Trump for a pardon.

Another major funder of TPP is David Gore, an Oregon libertarian whose family owns the Gore-Tex fabric company. Between 2018 and January 2021 he donated $50,000 to TPP Action, $275,000 to TPP’s super PAC, and $124,000 to TPP Foundation, according to the internal data obtained by The Intercept. Gore could not be reached for comment.
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Not surprised at all.

Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Salsa Billionaire and Other Wealthy Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal