I thought I would check Andrew Saul's political contributions this year. Here's what I found (sorry about the formatting but tables are almost impossible to get right in Blogger):
| THE HAWKEYE PAC |
I would caution that Saul may also have made contributions late in this political cycle that haven't yet shown up online. More important, he may have made dark money contributions that don't show up on this or any other list available to the public.
What's shown above is chump change for someone of Saul's wealth. Still, I would have expected a contribution directly to Trump's re-election campaign.
By the way, the Hawkeye PAC is associated with Senator Charles Grassley and the NRSC is the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Cory Gardner failed in his bid to be re-elected to the Senate from Colorado.
Charles Grassley is chair of the Senate Finance Committee with jurisdiction over Social Security.
ReplyDeleteHe is free to spend his own money any way he sees fit.
ReplyDeleteIn fairness Charles and transparency, who did you make contributions too? How much?
Donations are public records. If you really want to know about Charles' donations, you can look it up https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/
ReplyDelete10:57 AM. In fact, he cannot spend his money any way he sees fit as a government executive with the authority to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money. You are correct those restrictions have nothing to do with campaign spending, but he is bound but ethics laws.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this information. I hope we hear of a new nominee soon and Saul's tenure is short-lived.
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