This just in: Josh Hawley has a new set of wheels. Courtesy of money funneled into his reelection campaign.
The fist-pumping, quick-footed, anti-LGBTQ+ Missouri senator raked in a reported $2.5 million in the first quarter of 2024. To celebrate, he went to his local Buick/GMC dealership and dropped almost $75,000 on a new vehicle, according to FEC filings.
The Kansas City Star reports:
One of Hawley’s higher ticket costs was a vehicle from a car dealership outside of St. Louis. The campaign’s filing with the Federal Elections Commission did not disclose the make or model of the vehicle, but on the dealership’s website, the price tag is in the range of a GMC Yukon.
Hawley’s campaign declined to comment on the car, but it could be an attempt to save money in the long run. Statewide campaigns often put lots of mileage on vehicles and, rather than rent a car for each trip, it could help bring down the cost over the course of a long campaign.
But not everything is as it seems.
Hawley’s $2.5 million fundraising haul might look impressive at first glance. But it turns out, over $1.5 million of it was just a money transfer from his victory committee to his reelection campaign. It didn’t come from individual donors or even Missouri voters.
His pro-LGBTQ+ Democratic opponent, Lucas Kunce, was quick to point this out on Twitter X.
Kunce, a 13-year Marine vet who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, first rose to gay political prominence when he ran for Senate in 2022 and he shared a photo of himself running in a pair of short-shorts… sparking an online fury.
Though widely considered the underdog in the race, Kunce’s campaign just announced it pulled in over $2.25 million in the first quarter of 2024, setting a new record for a Senate challenger in the state and bringing his total cash on hand up to $3.3 million.
Unlike Hawley, who hates gay people, 41-year-old Kunce supports outlawing conversion therapy at the federal level and has said he would support the Equality Act. He has also vowed to help end violence against trans people and stand up for gender affirming care for trans youth.
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Kangol2
So glad Lucas Kunce is raising lots of $. He’s a very good candidate. But, sad to say, Missouri gets redder by the day.
still_onthemark
He IS a very good candidate. Hopefully he has time to read the Cass Review (388 pp) and realize that gender “affirming” care is about as scientific as astrology. In practice, it’s become essentially the same thing as gay conversion therapy, only with puberty blockers. Democrats should follow the lead of the Labour Party on this one.
abfab
When certain health cares do not concern you it’ best to mind your own business.
still_onthemark
abfab, as a Democrat it concerns me that so many Democratic candidates are chained to the sinking ship of transtrenderism, a la Leo on the Titanic. Supporting this unscientific b.s., after it’s been proven to be unscientific b.s., will not gain any Democrat a single vote anywhere (even in Calif., never mind Missouri) and may lose some in close races. As a gay man it concerns me that gay and lesbian kids are being transitioned when they’re not trans, they’re just gay. I urge anyone here to read the Cass Review!
abfab
I urge you to get out more. Votes? How lame.
dbmcvey
Still. It disturbs me that you devote so much time to complaining about trans people.
dbmcvey
Still, what gay and lesbian children have been transitioned who weren’t trans? Where are you getting that?
still_onthemark
db: Read the Cass Review and get back to us.
abfab
We already did and it was a real page turner!
The book chronicles Elliot’s early life — from her Russian family immigrating to America in 1914 through her early years as Ellen Naomi Cohen — all the way to her ascent to stardom, career, and death at the age of 32. It also sheds light on her struggles with self-esteem and weight (she was long against the nickname “Mama Cass”).
still_onthemark
See, db, Abbie has already caved and decided to move on. If you’re not willing to “educate yourself,” go plan your next trip to Disney World, it must have been three whole months since you’ve been there?
dbmcvey
still, I’m educated. It’s flawed and controversial. It’s being questioned and reviewed, it’s hardly gospel. At the very least it discounts and discards data that disproves Cass’s conclusion.
still_onthemark
I’m glad to hear that your parrot has stopped saying “The science is settled!!!”
dbmcvey
I’ve never said “the science is settled”, that’s not how science works. But, the Cass Review doesn’t settle it.
still_onthemark
The past year or so you have certainly acted like the current U.S. approach is “gospel.” But okay, now that you FINALLY admit the U.S. approach is “flawed and controversial. It’s being questioned and reviewed, it’s hardly gospel.” – now you can stop insulting me as an “anti-trans conservative.” I’m neither anti-trans nor conservative. Stop bullying and insulting anyone who disagrees with you. (Except maybe decrans!)
still_onthemark
Also, db, as you are probably aware, GLAAD has a van painted with the slogan “THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!” that they like to park outside the NY Times building. Or did until last week, lol.
dbmcvey
I’ve “acted like”?
You don’t know me. You have no idea how I act.
I do know you have to keep moving the goal posts.
The Cass Review is being reviewed, there are already flaws. It’s not settled science.
still_onthemark
It’s great that now you’re suddenly “acting like” you didn’t spend the past year here saying everything was fine and anyone who disagreed must be an anti-trans conservative. Nobody is claiming the Cass review is “settled science,” it’s just a start to finally doing some actual research on this subject without the activists shutting down the research! The report’s “flaws” were mostly caused by activist NHS employees refusing even to talk with Dr. Cass or provide her any info despite being ORDERED by the NHS to do so. That should concern you too.
dbmcvey
Hawley needs a car so he can get away faster than running.
abfab
A tri-cycle.
ShaverC
Who cares about a car? Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, despite stating she’s looking for a new vehicle a year ago, is still driving around in her $55,000 Tesla.
KyleMichelSullivan
Go away. You’re tedious.
dbmcvey
HOW DARE SHE DRIVE!!!
dbmcvey
Did she use campaign donations?
ShaverC
dbmcvey, Most likely she did… or a benefactor paid for it.
abfab
Josh and Shaver both drive Buicks.
dbmcvey
So, Shaves, you don’t actually know. You just want to believe it
wikidBSTN
55K for a new car is nothing these days.
still_onthemark
Some activists were criticizing her for having a car AT ALL in NYC, but her district is half in Queens and half in the Bronx – the subways just don’t run that way. She eventually wants to get a union-made car.
SoPluckyWhat
Shaver seems to have inside info. Could it be that maybe HE(?) paid for her Tesla?
ZzBomb
As usual, no defense just unsubstantiated whataboutisms
dbmcvey
What do you think needed defending? You said she had a car. So what?
dbmcvey
And your whole post was a whataboutism. You presented nothing but “most likely she did.”
Chrisk
One’s donations are coming from true grass roots while the other Hawley is getting his from DC maga donors who expect to be taken care of later on.
Fahd
There probably are some recent poll numbers, but Gremore. I take some comfort in that as “vocal” as Hawley tries to be that he still doesn’t seem to be in the presidential discussion. I can’t stand him.
Fahd
btw, I’m not saying that I can’t stand him just because he’s so masculine. I can’t stand him primarily because of his disingenous political pandering and the repugnant political positions that result therefrom.
abfab
He looks like a Perdue Chicken.
rbernard
Time and time again, we see that our greatest enemies, are the fearful closet cases who raised in religious homes.
CNY1983
nothing says closet like religion, amen.