LONG AGO THERE WAS A STUNTED EFFORT IN THE U.S. SENATE TO END BRIBES BEING SIPHONED OFF TO FAMILY MEMBERS. THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN AND HER LAP BITCH, BARBARA 'BRIBES' BOXER VOTED HELL NO!!!
FEINSTEIN'S HUSBAND HAD LONG BEEN HANDING OUT BRIBES TO DEMS SO THEY WOULD KEEP THEIR MOUTHS CLOSED ABOUT THE FEISTEIN - RICHARD BLUM CORRUPTION THAT MADE THEM MULTIPLE FORTUNES. BOXER WENT INTO THE SENATE POOR BUT LEFT RICH HAVING SIPHONED OFF BIG MONEY AS 'CONSULTANT' FEES TO LAWYER SON DOUGLAS BOXER. SEEMS LIKE THERE'S ALWAYS A PARISITE LAWYER ENVOVLTED.
MAXINE WATERS HAS NOW SIPHONED OFF A MILLION DOLLARS TO HER DAUGHTER. IT'S WHY THEY RUN FOR OFFICE. SERVE THE SPECIAL INTERESTS, POCKET THE 'CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS'
"Loopholes that allow members of Congress to funnel campaign funds to their spouses are despicable and erode trust in our government," Gallagher said.
After Rep. Omar's Fees Made Up 80% of Her Husbands' Company, Republicans Introduce OMAR Bill
Washington D.C. is rife with abuses. But there are abuses and then there's utterly flagrant contempt for even the appearance of propriety.
Rep. Omar has been accused of marrying her brother. But that's not even the most corrupt relationship that she's in. That would be the time she cheated on her husband (not the brother, the other husband) with her political consultant.
And then it got worse from there.
Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) campaign payments to her husband's firm accounted for nearly 80 percent of its cash haul during the 2020 elections, federal filings show.
The E Street Group, a D.C. consulting firm owned by Tim Mynett, Omar's husband, and his partner Will Hailer, received $3.7 million from political committees this past cycle. Omar's campaign was by far its biggest moneymaker, doling out 146 checks for $2.9 million, or 78 percent of the firm's payments. Its second biggest cash source was Omar mentor Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.), whose campaign provided $194,000. The two combined for 85 percent of the firm's payments.
Omar's payments to E Street constituted a large part of her campaign expenditures. Her committee spent $5.2 million, meaning that the $2.9 million that she funneled to her husband's firm was 56 percent of the campaign's operational costs.
How do you deal with a problem like Omar? With the OMAR bill.
Two House Republicans introduced a bill named after Rep. Ilhan Omar, which aims to prevent politicians from paying spouses with campaign funds.
“For too long, lawmakers of both political parties have engaged in the ethically dubious practice of pocketing campaign funds by ‘hiring’ their spouses and laundering the money as campaign-related expenses,” Rep. Tom Tiffany, who introduced the bill with Rep. Mike Gallagher, said in a press release.
“Loopholes that allow members of Congress to funnel campaign funds to their spouses are despicable and erode trust in our government,” Gallagher added.
It's a clever move that will obviously be blocked, but Republicans, stuck in the minority, are looking for creative ways to push back and put Democrats on the defensive. Calling attention to Democrat corruption is one way to do that. And while Omar might have taken this so far that even Democrats were disgusted, funneling money to family members and friends is routine. And any push to crack down on it is welcome.
Cut Off from Campaign Cash, Omar’s Husband Turns to Booze Biz
Tim Mynett ditched politics once Omar stopped cash flow to political consulting firm
After Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) announced that she was cutting ties with husband Tim Mynett's political consulting firm, Mynett turned his attention to a new mission: advising wine and beverage companies.
Mynett and his business partner, Will Hailer, quietly registered a second venture in October 2019. But it wasn't until Omar said she would terminate her contract with their political consulting firm that they really turned their attention to the new business. Omar's campaign paid Mynett's firm, E Street Group, $2.9 million during the 2020 election cycle—nearly 80 percent of what the firm took in from federal committees.
Documents filed with D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs show that E Street Group LLC registered the trade name eStreet.co in October 2019. The newer group carries a website address identical to its name, which is separate from that of Mynett's political consulting site. A cache of eStreet.co's website shows it was under construction in August of last year. It appears to have gone live some time around September—two months before Omar announced she would halt the payments to E Street Group.
Mynett and Hailer are listed as partners on eStreet.co's site. Neither man's bio refers to E Street's relationship with Omar's campaign, but both point to their past work with groups including Alliance for Justice, the Democratic National Committee, and Angelina Jolie's Global Action for Children.
According to the website, eStreet will work to "elevate the voices of underrepresented entrepreneurs in the winemaking and beverage industries." The firm offers advertising, public relations, and web services for beverage companies. Mynett could not be reached for comment. Hailer did not provide a comment.
Mynett registered E Street Group LLC in July 2018, D.C. corporate filings show. Omar began funneling cash to the firm in August of that year. Throughout the 2018 election cycle, Mynett's firm received just $171,000 from federal committees, including $62,000 from Omar's campaign, which went to fundraising services.
E Street Group's bottom line dramatically increased during the 2020 elections, when it pulled in $3.7 million from federal committees. Eighty-five percent of those payments came from the campaigns of Omar and her mentor, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.).
Omar and Mynett were first identified as a potential couple when her campaign's payments to E Street Group skyrocketed during the 2020 cycle. Divorce filings submitted by Mynett's then-wife in August 2019 alleged that he and Omar were having an affair.
Both parties denied the allegation. Mynett claimed that his ex-wife was attempting to ruin his career, and Omar added that she was not separated from then-husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi. "I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it," Omar said.
After long denying the affair, the pair announced their marriage on Instagram in March 2020. "Got Married! From partners in politics to life partners, so blessed. Alhamdulillah," Omar wrote in the post. She funneled more than $500,000 in campaign cash to the firm before tying the knot.
Omar's payments to her husband's firm have caused Republican lawmakers to call for an end to such financial relationships. Last Friday, Reps. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) and Tom Tiffany (R., Wis.) introduced the Oversight for Members and Relatives, or OMAR, Act, which would prohibit federal politicians from paying firms owned by their spouses.
"Loopholes that allow members of Congress to funnel campaign funds to their spouses are despicable and erode trust in our government," Gallagher said.
Maxine Waters's paid-mailer racket snowballs
When we last visited Rep. Maxine Waters's hightly questionable 'slate-mailer' money-making racket in 2019, where candidates and causes get Waters's endorsement in exchange for cash, her daughter Karen who runs the thing had just pocketed $50,000.
Well, the operation seems to have gotten bigger, and Karen appears to be richer, all from mama Maxine's simple word of endorsement.
According to Fox News, citing federal election data and a 2018 report from the Washington Free Beacon:
The reelection of U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters to another term in Congress last month proved to be something of a financial windfall for Karen Waters, the California Democrat's daughter, federal election data suggest.
Karen Waters received a total of about $240,000 from her 82-year-old mother’s campaign during the election cycle, Federal Election Commission records show.
The dollar figure appears to mirror what Karen Waters received during her mother’s previous campaign in 2018, when the daughter was paid “more than $200,000,” according to a November 2018 report by the Washington Free Beacon.
Which is nice work if you can get it. Seriously, this person makes $240,000 which is nearly equal to what the mayor of Los Angeles makes, or the average U.S. Senator makes, or Maxine herself makes as a House member at $174,000 a year. It's more than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes ($223,500). It's certainly more than California's Gov. Gavin Newsom ($210,000) makes.
All for the little task of assembling a mailer to fill the voters' junk mail takings and then the recycle bins in one part of one county, and collecting cash on the content. Running the country's largest state with the world's seventh largest economy, by contrast, is less important stuff. Karen Waters must be brilliant.
Which raises questions as to why Waters, a far left demogogue, is selling her endorsements for cash, and what the payers of these endorsements, are really getting for their money. We know the Waters machine is strong, but so strong as to merit inflated fees and salaries for Waters and her family? This is known as getting rich while in public office. Waters is the only one who's doing this sleazy machine-politics practice on a national scale, but don't imagine other Democrats aren't also looking to cash in.
Everybody wins when Maxine sells her endorsement, Maxine's family with cash, and others with cash turned into newfound power. The only losers are the voters, who get these misleading junk mail flyers in their mail and vote on arguably false premises.
What a racket this is for people like Waters. Still no sign of any legislation to stop this practice.
Image: Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
Waters Has Shoveled Over $1 Million in Campaign Cash to Daughter
Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has now dished out more than $1 million in campaign payments to her daughter following the 2020 elections.
Karen Waters has pocketed $1.13 million for providing an array of services for her mother's campaign since 2003. The majority of the cash is for her role in running a controversial slate-mailer operation, in which California politicians gave money to Waters's campaign in exchange for mailers bearing her endorsement.
The mailers have become increasingly lucrative for the younger Waters over the years. During the 2020 cycle, her payments hit a high of $240,000. That's significantly more than the $90,000 her firm, Progressive Connections, took in during the 2006 election cycle. The Federal Election Commission gave Waters the green light for the mailer operation in 2004.
While slate mailers are commonplace in states like California and Oregon, the practice is extremely rare at the federal level. In fact, Waters appears to be the only federal politician to use a slate-mailer operation. As such, the arrangement between her and her daughter has led to complaints from watchdog groups asking the FEC to audit the campaign.
Many prominent California politicians have paid to be featured on the mailers. Vice President Kamala Harris twice shelled out tens of thousands from her campaigns for a spot on the mailers. California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) and former senator Barbara Boxer (D.) have likewise dished out cash for Waters's support.
The practice has received criticism from local media."While some of these mailers reflect the earnest political values of the organizations that put them together, many are pay-to-play money-makers that blur the line between endorsement, paid advertisement and extortion," CalMatters wrote last year.
Waters's campaign did not return a request for comment.
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