The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene $12,000 (R-Ga.) for alleged illegal PAC fundraising, according to a recently-published conciliation agreement.
The FEC said Greene violated Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), for “soliciting non-federal” funds by reposting an advertisement she appeared in on her official Greene for Congress social media accounts. The advertisement was for political action committee (PAC) “Stop Socialism Now PAC.”
The PAC posted the advertisement on its website, YouTube and social media feeds in December 2020. The video featured Greene speaking about the 2021 Senate runoff elections in her home state, which eventually resulted in the election of Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to their current seats, according to the conciliation agreement.
How 'bout $12k + every cent raised by the PAC + and audit to every other form of fundraising she’d got her fingers in.
$12k by itself isn’t shit.
I’m sure her wrist is smarting.
Daily reminder you live in an oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
Just like most corporate crimes, attacking democracy is a financial overhead that’s a fraction of the profits from the crime — a fine that would cripple most of the population, but is a rounding error to the 1% or corporate-backed politician.
It’s nice to think she’s stupid, but remember: Hanlon’s Razor is inverted when money is involved. She’s not stupid, she knows what she’s doing; what she’s doing is successfully grifting rightwingers, consequences be damned
If an FEC investigation has already found that she did it, it is not ‘alleged’.
The advertisement was for political action committee (PAC) “Stop Socialism Now PAC.”
Oh boy, I’d love to hear them explain what they think socialism is.
“Socialism is when Joe Bid…”
Yeah okay, let me stop you right there.
I recently learned she has three kids. Can you imagine growing up in that house?