Win / Win
When a filthy rich Republican – the kind who can write million dollar checks to try to screw an election – hires a money grubbing political machine masquerading as a non-profit, non-partisan all-American seeker of honesty and truth, and then the rich guy has his millions disappear with no results, that’s kinda fun.
But, when he turns around and publicly sues the non-profit political machine for scamming him out of money, oh Honey, that’s the kind of Republican fight where there are no winners.
Those kinds of fights are a Democrat’s dream, especially if you personally know one of the people involved and have had fights with them before.
The day before Thanksgiving, Fred Eshelman, founder of a venture capital firm, sued True the Vote Inc. in Houston federal court. True the Vote is a firm run by the greasy Catherine E. Engelbrecht of Houston, formerly of Richmond, Texas.
On November 5th, Eshelman wired $2 million to Cathy Engelbrecht to investigate claims of voter fraud against his candidate, Donald J. Trump. Even though she did not come up anything solid, he wired her $500,000 more on November 17th, even after a meeting that did not go well.
So, this rich Republican pays $2.5 million and gets nothing. Well, I couldn’t be happier about that.
Then, he sues Engelbrecht. Oh, this is my early Christmas present.
Engelbrecht used to be my neighbor. In our county elections, she would hold meetings all over the county with mostly old people at churches and fleece them for money explaining how we Democrats cheat in elections. Then she got volunteers from her rich Republican friends with clipboard to go “monitor” voting places in black and Hispanic precincts. I know this for a fact because I went to “monitor” them. And she called this action “True the Vote.”
I fixed the name of it, and she was intensively peeved about that.
And the most fun part was in 2013, when one of her favorite candidates was running to unseat a Democratic county commissioner in our mutual commissioners precinct. Through the miracle of modern journalism and Democratic contacts all over the country, I was able to discover that her favorite candidate and his wife had been voting in both Texas in person and in their former home of Pennsylvania by mail in the same elections.
I was working for the local newspaper at the time and I wrote a front page story about it. (It’s no longer online, which is a whole ‘other story.) but the Juanita Jean column I wrote about it is right here.
And there were some other things she did that bothered me. Anytime she saw me, she’d glare. I’d snicker and she hated that.
I kinda miss her since she moved to Houston. Maybe I’ll send her a postcard and let her know I know a good lawyer and he only costs $2.5 million.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
Ah, no matter how full you are from Thanksgiving dinner, there’s always room for a piece of karma. This slice is long over due.
1Oh, Goody! Another reminder to me to never, ever get on your bad side. It will never end well for me. However, I would be happy to hold your coat while you go after those corrupt Rethugs.
2So this guy ponies up another $500K after having a bad meeting, presumably about what happened with the prior $2M?
Now that is delusion done right.
3They deserved each other. But repugnanticans giving money even now to phony schemes to uncover voter fraud are going on because they’re sources of money from lame brains. Sidney Powell is asking for checks made out to her at this moment. Even after a hand count and vote certification, she claims 100,000 votes for Trumpf were not counted. So idiots give her money.
4Well Merry Christmas Ms. JJ! And I’m sure that lawyer you know will require his payment in collected funds up front
5Nice of you to help her uncover some real voter fraud JJ! Mr. & Mrs. County Commissioner Candidate.
Sounds like she didn’t take it very well though, being right and all.
6I remember that we had 80 or so poll watchers out watching the True the Vote poll watchers in 2012.
7Uhh, I gotta ask: are the initials of the $2.5M lawyer you would recommend to her “Rudy Giuliani”? At the $20k a day he thinks Trump is gonna pay him, that would buy her 125 days of top quality entertainment.
8I don’t think I would take investment advice from that guy.
9Or a really sentimental Christmas card with a note inside saying, “Cathy, sweetie, I see in the news you’re having some legal problems. All your vultures coming home to roost, eh? Thoughts and prayers, honey, thoughts and prayers.”
10Ah, Fred Eshelman, serves him right. Last time I heard about Fred was 10 years ago when he spent a great deal of money trashing (i.e. lying) about a good friend of ours, Steve Goss, who was running for re-election as a State Senator here in western NC. I’d call him an S.O.B., but after decades in dog rescue I know that’s an insult to bitches everywhere. Glad to see karma is real.
11Elizabeth Moon @ 10, I like this idea. I might enclose a five dollar bill, and say “Cathy, sweetie, buy yourself something nice. Thoughts and prayers, dear.”
12Moved to Houston, eh? And we remember years back when she voted in two states in the same election cycle.
Proving the adage … Grifters are Drifters.
13My God! Doesn’t this woman know that circuses also have animals, jugglers and high wire acts AS WELL AS CLOWNS?
14So stoooooopid!