Republican PAC Scams On The Increase
There’s a story in Pro Publica this week that hits close to home. It’s about Republican scam PACs.
Yeah, the fools are still being scammed by people who know a sucker when they see one. The difference this week is that one of the parties to the scam is a person I know and have done business with.
This PAC, named the Conservative Majority Fund promised to use any monies raised to “oppose Barack Obama.”
The PAC, called the Conservative Majority Fund, has raised nearly $10 million since mid-2012 and continues to solicit funds to this day, primarily from thousands of steadfast contributors to conservative causes, many of them senior citizens. But it has made just $48,400 in political contributions to candidates and committees. Public records indicate its main beneficiaries are the operative Kelley Rogers, who has a history of disputes over allegedly unethical fundraising, and one of the largest conservative fundraising companies, InfoCision Management Corp., which charged millions of dollars in fundraising fees.
This scam took Lynne Archer of Sugar Land, a woman I know, for $3,800.
Archer said she tries to be wary of potential scams, but the Conservative Majority Fund had always sounded “like a legitimate group” when it solicited money.
“Damn, I gave a lot to them,” said Archer, who lives in Sugar Land, Texas, and works for her husband at an automobile dealership. “I don’t like that at all.”
Archer is very wealthy and can afford to lose the money but a lot of the people in these scams are not.
You know, these poor Republicans can’t give to the RNC because they spend it on spa treatments for Roona McDaniels and even the PACs are walking off with their money. You’d think they’d be wary by now, but apparently not.
is this actually illegal?
i looked into the law on “SuperPACs” a few years ago and couldn’t really find any regulations on what they do with their money.
1I keep telling myself that one of these days I’m going to trade off whatever integrity, honesty, and pride I have [left] and open up some online scam directly targeting MAGAots and Trumpanzees for every last dime possible. What a way to ‘get rich easy’.
2No way would I feel bad about it, I’d be overjoyed to pull it off. Some of those teabaggin’ suckers could end up eating catfood and I’d simply luv it. Screw ’em all.
Well, I guess I’m a bad person, and if there’s a Hell I’ll likely end up there, but for the life of me the only downside to this that I can see is that I’ll probably run into these folks there, too. If people are stupid enough to fall for these scams then I’d rather see their money going to the scammers and not going to the politicians they favor.
3Yeah, I thought the same thing about the televangelists and prosperity gospel con men. Eary childhood bible school taught me enough bible verses to talk the talk. But then I realized so many of those suckers are elderly people living on social security, whipped up into a state of fear by Fox News and megachurches.
An acquantice of mine in the 70s would put ads in the back of magazines and newspapers, saying “For biblical inspiration, send $5 to ….” Then he’d send back a mimeographed page with random bible verses on it, that cost him less than 1 cent. He was scum, and I realized I did not want to become like him.
On the other hand, if you figure out how to only target the wealthy ….
4How did they get $10 million in donations when my scam PAC, Mexicans for Trump, still has not received a single donation?
5The old saw about a fool and his money begs the question. How did the fool get money in the first place?
6Perhaps Ms. Archer of Sugarland will spread the word that any Republicon not dead since before Nixon is not to be trusted. “Conservative” means con is the griftiest of ways. Over 60 years is plenty of time to attach the ‘buyer beware’ label on Republicons.
7Ah, slipstream, just be patient. Surely there are some Republicans, claiming they are not racists, who will send you some. (Maybe in pesos?)
8Professor @ 4:
Early childhood bible school inoculated me against religion in general. Lifetime case of skeptic-pox.
9I am an old lady myself, but folks if these scams take money out of use against us in elections, I say bring it on.
Scamming old folks should be a crime, but these guys don’t know from criminal behavior.
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