FEC fines Marjorie Taylor Greene $12,000 for illegal PAC fundraising
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.
$12k by itself is just the cost of politics, unless they left harsher fines
That might almost be excessive. But unless she earned 12,000 or less. This isn't any adequate fine. If they don't lose more than they made, that is only an endorsement for corruption.
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.
Her brain sure isn't.
idk it might hurt to think at all
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
The constant word salad and obvious gaffs are evidence she’s a moron. The people who are putting her out there, however, are exactly what you say.
Consequences? This fine has already been accounted for on the balance sheet
Think? She's not capable of such socialist things.
If an FEC investigation has already found that she did it, it is not 'alleged'.
Yeah. I have no idea why it's written that way. People are not usually punished for allegedly doing something.
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?
Not sure if I would hate her or Kellyanne Conway's house more.
So, peanuts.
Impossible for me- and maybe you but probably difficult for you if it isn't impossible, peanuts for the ruling class. Because there is America for politicians, investors, tech bros and the idle rich and there is America for everyone else.
I would not include tech bros in that. Sure we can make a lot of money, but most tech bros are just making enough to have a mortgage on a condo in their city, or a house in the suburbs, which many other jobs can do.
I worked for a Mississippi company and made 50k out of college. I left in 2021 making $80k as a project manager and 4 years experience. Definitely nowhere near how much Magic the Gathering is making from her investment. Even now, I am making more, but $12k is still a crippling amount of money.
I'm talking people like Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, not a project manager.
That's not who people are referring to when they say 'tech bros', however. They're referring mostly to the rank and file workers.
Exactly. I see so many stickers in Seattle of “go home tech bros” talking about people who moved there and work in tech.
Oh, it's impossible for me, certainly. But even if MTG earned literally nothing outside of her congressional salary (as if), it would still amount to little more than peanuts.
Tech bros are nowhere near on the same level as the ruling class.
Elon Musk isn't part of the ruling class?
Elon Musk is not what people are referring to when they say "tech bros". It refers to basically everybody who works in the software industry. I live in Seattle, which runs on the tech industry. Many in the area like to shit on "tech bros", and when they do so, they mean the tens of thousands of average people working in software and engineering.
Oh, she’ll scam her Christofascist base to pay for it with a couple of email blasts. Give it a week. If she employs a text blast, she could prolly clear $25k over the weekend.
“The LIbriLs aRe StEElin uR RyTES1!! TXT 87558 WitH ur CC nUMMer NoW!! VeeRgin MAry BANg BanG!”
Did she ever pay back her illegal $400K PPP loan?
she'll make double that pitching her supporters about how shes being silenced
Double?, like ten times that. This isn't a fine, it's a tax.
Being back real fines.
She can, quite literally, make more then that in a single donation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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 PAC posted the advertisement on its website, YouTube and social media feeds in December 2020.
In the video, Greene attempted to raise money for the PAC’s efforts to keep Ossoff and Warnock from winning the seats.
The FEC accepted the agreement in early December, and Greene had 30 days after it became “effective” to comply with it.
Earlier this week, a Florida resort canceled an event with her that would’ve occurred on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“Please be advised that Westgate was not made aware of the purpose of this event when we were approached to host a book signing,” the resort said in an emailed statement.
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At least they cancelled her J6 celebration event.