https://www.newsweek.com/multiple-state-republican-parties-going-broke-1858680
Several state Republican parties are nearly broke or destroyed by infighting as the November election cycle begins.
The party of fiscal responsibility seems to be doing a pretty good job with their finances.
In Massachusetts, Politico reported that the state GOP has racked up more than $400,000 in debts to vendors and had less than $70,000 in the bank.
I see a pattern.
In only a matter of a few months, the party is essentially non-functional and, worse yet, the party and others associated with the party are now facing potential civil and criminal consequences for breaking laws.
I really see a pattern!
This is exactly what they're excellent at. Spending other people's money with no real plan to recoup it, hoping the next big sucker will come along and bail them out to a golden parachute before the floor falls out.
But now the floor is falling and someone has to hold the bag. It's probably not going to be any billionaires.
No plan to recoup it? The trump tax cuts paid for their donations multiple times over. Pure graft.
It would be pretty easy for anyone to do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party. Anyone can register as a member and according to Wikipedia they have about 700,000 actual members. Billionaires and the Mitt Romney/Mike Pence/Ted Cruz wing of the GOP could swoop in and leave the name 'Republican' to the MAGoos.
Seriously, it's because right-wing grifters (especially Trump) have been sucking up all the cash.
It used to be (in the Republican party) that after the elections Republican candidates would contribute their campaign funds back to the party. Trump put an end to that which has cash starved the local elections.
It used to be (in the Republican party) that after the elections Republican candidates would contribute their campaign funds back to the party
Something something, from each according to their ability to each according to their need? Redistribution of resources and all that...
With the RNC fumbling so hard, other donor money also goes to candidates outside of the national party, the far right wackos. Jeez, nonestablishment democrats get us people like Bernie, and on the other end it fucking gets us MTG.
In Arizona and Michigan, two states where the GOP presidential candidate will likely have to win a majority of suburban voters to get back in the White House, the state Republican parties are running critically short on money. In Arizona, the state GOP has just $14,800 left in the bank at the end of August, as reported by the Arizona Mirror.
$14,800 is an insanely low amount of money.
You can't win a contested small-time county election with $15k.
In Minnesota the republican party had $8000 in cash on hand and is $76,000 in debt the last I read in the local news. And that has been the general situation for the past year. There has been talk of bankruptcy.
Expect a shower of rubles to pour in and provide as much support as that anemic currency can afford.
If you don't think American politics haven't been a pressing issue for Russia for the past decade at least, then you haven't been paying attention
Oh I'm sure that's true, but that doesn't change sanctions and their own funding drying up. I'm sure they'll still bribe who they can, but the NRA looks to be a bad investment now.
Kind of crazy the funding issues (I don't want to call them problems because, honestly this is great news) are so widespread between states.
Really weird situation I hope gets investigated more. I would read an entire book on this.
This feels like well deserved schadenfreude, but probably just means that a wider range of scum can buy their votes cheap.
Wouldn't "its" be the correct word. "It's" is a contraction for "it is." Or were you pointing out the mistake?
Seems the “I got mine” ideology would work better if they spread it around a bit instead of funneling it all to that fatass orange-utan they worship. He’s bankrupting their entire party and I couldn’t be happier!
Trump is hogging all the donations and isn't sharing the piggy bank with the state party peons. Oh no!
His "pay lawyers to stall outcomes of court cases long enough for a coup" item is already 114% of his budget.
Oh no! The invisible hand of the market grifters and conmen woke cancel culture has stolen my money!
You know what would help?
Buying my Jpeg-err, NFTs.
Here's an NFT of Trump riding a dragon and punching satan, it's only $200 million dollars~
It'll go to the moon, I pinky promise.
/jk