RFK Super PAC Largely Funded By GOP Megadonor

Well we knew that.  The republicans recruited him to run as a chaos agent to suck votes from Biden.  Republicans know their candidates and the ideas they push are unpopular with the people.  So they only way they can stay in power is to cheat, suppress votes of the democrats, and gerrymander to create districts that only republicans can win.  Rather than change the party to appeal to more people they simply demand no one gets to vote unless they vote for them, so they can rule as a minority over the majority.  The problem for the right is RFK is talking more like a republican than a democrat.   What republicans are doing should be illegal.   Hugs

Politico reports:

A super PAC supporting the presidential ambitions of longshot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reported receiving more than half its nearly $10 million in funds from a single GOP donor.

Of the $9.8 million reported, $5 million came from Timothy Mellon, a longtime GOP donor who gave $1.5 million to a Trump-aligned group last fall, according to campaign finance records. In a press release earlier Monday, Mellon touted Kennedy’s bipartisan credentials, calling him “the one Democrat who can win in the general election.”

Most of the rest of the super PAC’s fundraising through the end of June came from Gavin De Becker, an author and consultant who reported giving the group $4.5 million.

The Insider reports: 

Mellon also contributed $53 million to an effort led by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas to build a wall on the US-Mexico border, effectively funding the entire venture himself.

The grandson of famous banking magnate Andrew Mellon and an heir to the family fortune, Mellon once wrote in a self-published autobiography that welfare programs are “slavery redux” and described Black people as becoming “even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations” in the 1980s.

RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas https://t.co/6g449uzifw

— Alec Chivalry (@ArtVandelay2021) August 1, 2023

 

Yep. He’s the new Tulsi Gabbard. In 18 months he’ll have his own show on Newsmax

Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo  Houndentenor 4 days ago

Killing more Republican viewers with his anti-vax message. That’s one way to insure the quick extinction of the doomed evolutionary offshoot: MAGAman

Harveyrabbit 🐱4 days ago

how shocking.

 

Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad 4 days ago

Frankly, I’m surprised it’s just one mega donor funding that loony attention-whore.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo 4 days ago

Also interesting that he appears to want Trump and went this route as opposed to funding DeSantis, who early on was getting lots of big donations.

Tulle 4 days ago

So two people gave $9.5 million of the $9.8 million he’s got

Bungee4 days ago

Our system is so screwed up that a small handful of extremely wealthy individuals can buy lifetime appointments to SCOTUS as well as spoiler candidates for Presidential elections.

That, and controlling cable news propaganda networks that, even when fined enormous amounts of money, just go right back to pumping nonsensical bullshit on the airwaves.

T-Cup T-Rex4 days ago

It’s almost as if he were a GOP-funded SPOILER candidate.
Weird, eh?

Reality.Bites  T-Cup T-Rex4 days ago

There doesn’t seem to be much he can actually do though. He might be disruptive if there was an open Democratic race like in 2016 or 2020, but there’s an incumbent. There aren’t going to be debates and campaign rallies.

Fawning appearances on right-wing podcasts and Z-tier cable channels have no impact whatsoever on Democratic primary voters.

oisturize me4 days ago

I am beginning to think there is some coordination going on through whack job MAGA back channels. There is this small group of MAGAs that have been showing up consistently in downtown Portsmouth NH since before the 2020 election. To this day they show up periodically and hold their trump signs and flags in market square. They have picnics down on the water front. The other day I saw the guy who parks his van with the Fuck Joe Biden sign (a while back he changed it to “truck” Joe biden, probably thinking of the children). He was sitting downtown wearing an RFK 2024 shirt. There’s no way this mental case has given up on trump. It’s a three dimensional chess move to take votes from Biden.