Hey, remember when Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz joined forces and embarked on that hate-fueled “America First” tour over the summer? Well, it turns out the whole thing was a complete bust.
Recent FEC filings for the Put America First PAC, which Greene and Gaetz co-founded together, show that they burned through $160,000 from July to September, but they only raised $57,000 during that same period, and now, they have just $13,000 left in their bank account.
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Oh, but it gets worse. Because Mother Jones reports that, in addition to running their PAC into the ground with a money-losing summer fundraising tour, neither extremist is raising much for their own campaigns anymore either.
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While Greene has raised an impressive $9 million since joining Congress in January, she wasted most of it on consultants and fundraisers trying to bring in even more. Unfortunately, her efforts didn’t pay off. In the last two quarters combined, she’s raised less than half of what she did in the first quarter of 2020.
As for Gaetz, that whole teen sex trafficking scandal he’s become ensnared in appears to have put a huge damper on his campaign coffers. He spent $100,000 more than he raised from July to September. On top of that, he raised considerably less than he did at the beginning of the year, before the scandal broke. And by “considerably less,” we mean he went from raking in $1.8 million in the first quarter of 2020 to just $527,000 in the third quarter.
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So, what does this all mean? Well, aside from the obvious, that Greene and Gaetz suck at managing their money, is also suggests that Americans are over their attention-seeking shenanigans and done putting stock into them. And thank god for that.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Mister P
I was called a negative Nellie on here.
So here goes.
I am happy for them.
woodroad34
Republicans are not good at money, except for themselves with what they can embezzle, steal, or otherwise shadily get for themselves. Screechers, Greene and Gaetz (a shoddy vaudeville act at best), just prove that they’re at the bottom of the GOP Grifter pile.
Fahd
This story is like complaining about two rich teenagers not sticking to their budget on a summer vacation. Consequences?
Given Gaetz´s father´s wealth and clout in Republican and Florida politics, I think the seat is Geatz´s for as long as he can avoid justice and wants it. Since Greene is considered unsuitable for committee memberships and apparently does not have a Big Boss daddy, I hope the Republicans will run someone else in her district.
CKNJ
Actually, I hope they still run her because she is such a travesty that even the idiots that voted for her the first time will abandon her sorry ass… Republicans do not deserve to have a win in that seat after that grotesque person filthied it up!
Den
The constituent base of Green, Bobert, and Cawthorne are beginning to realize these people don’t give a fig about their needs or what is best for their districts. Resentment is mounting and they are in for a shock when they try to get reelected based on their “patriotism” and love of firearms.
Essie
Gaetz may have a rich daddy but there is only so much money Daddy can (legally) pour into his campaign. And, no matter how “friendly” Daddy is with the elite he can’t make them give money to his son, especially if these charges keep piling up. So, really, he is on very shaky ground.
GrizzleyMichael
I hope they end up in the same prison cell
Kevan1
Let them rot.
ProudBLK Gay
I must say, screaming headlines like “Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz are almost broke” are terribly misleading. (Unfortunately!)
Especially since both these sad excuses of officeholders are rich and very financially well off.
Instead of famously Baiting & Switching the readers, it would have been more accurate, or ethical to announce that the “Put America First PAC” was going broke!
While my personal wish for both of them to eventually have to declare bankruptcy and political ruin; my wishing does not make it a reality, nor does it make it an accurate journalistic news story. Let’s not get like Fox here, by… screaming headlines that suck relative to reality!
Kangol2
Queerty long ago crossed the screaming-but-misleading headlines Rubicon. I just wish they’d cover some of the other LGBTQ news happening in the US and across the globe and limit the torrent of articles on the Don the Con crime family, unless absolutely necessary.
Matthewnow
I agree with Kangol2. Unless more factual news is printed, Queerty comes across as a National Enquirer wanna be. How about more investigative reporting and less hyperbole.