Kanye West's first FEC report

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[Maraya1969]

1. What kind of travel costs $58,200?

FORTIFIED CONSULTING 740 S. Mill Ave. Suite 200
Tempe, Arizona 85281
08/26/2020 Travel Expenses 58200.00

Edit to add:

Printing also. I can't imagine what you would print for this: $26,520.43

FORTIFIED CONSULTING 740 S. Mill Ave. Suite 200
Tempe, Arizona 85281
08/21/2020 Printing 26520.43

[dsc]

2. private plane maybe?

[sheshe2]

3. Bribes?

[MerryBlooms]

4. He was robbed.

[tanyev]

5. Fortified Cons

[SharonClark]

6. Kanye spends nearly $6 million on presidential campaign

Good breakdown of expenses in this article https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/kanye-west-spending-millions-on-his-presidential-campaign-409267

". . .West paid $25,000 to John Boyd, whom New York magazine described as a “spiritual adviser” to West, and $25,000 to Isaac Ford, whom the Tennessean reported helped get West on the ballot in that state. Ford's father and brother — Harold Ford Sr. and Harold Ford Jr., respectively — were Democratic members of Congress from Tennessee. . . "

Kanye is the kind of sucker trump and his minions like.

[crickets]

15. Great link. I wondered who John Boyd was. nt

[marlakay]

7. I heard he is on 3 states we need

I sure hope people aren't that stupid!

[Nevilledog]

8. Which states do you think he's on?

[marlakay]

9. The article I read on CNN said he is on 10

States including Colorado, Iowa and Minnesota. Didn't mention the rest. So far though I don't think he is on any other swing state.

[Nevilledog]

10. I thought just Minnesota was a swing state out of those the? I can't keep track.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Who donated to his campaign?

[crickets]

14. Kanye did!

Found this while looking for something else:

Kanye West loaned $6.8 million to his 2020 presidential committee
https://abc11.tv/2EQMLAl

Kanye West loaned $6.8 million to his 2020 presidential committee, essentially self-funding his campaign during the first month and a half of his run, his initial campaign disclosure report shows.

In its first disclosure filing submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Friday, the West campaign reported bringing in a total of $6.8 million between July 15 and Aug. 31, with $6.76 million of that coming from West's loans to the campaign.

The campaign raised a little under $11,500 from eight donors that gave between $200 and $1,000 and smaller donors who gave under $200 during that time, the report shows.

The other interesting consulting firm from the FEC report is mentioned in this article:

Nearly $2.7 million of that money has gone to a Huntington, New York-based firm named Millennial Strategies, LLC, which has provided a wide range of services, including campaign management consulting, legal services, polling, ballot access services and election law research, according to the filing. Led by New York Democratic Lawyers Council Executive Director Alex Voetsch and Jeffrey Guillot, according to Millennial Strategies' website, the firm's current and past clients include a host of private corporations as well as political and advocacy campaigns, including Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign and the New York State Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee.

[crickets]

12. Fortified Consulting

West paid something called "Fortified Consulting" over $1.47 million. Fortified has the exact same Tempe, AZ address as the Lincoln Strategy Group, another Republican firm.

Link from another reply tweet:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lincoln_Strategy_Group

Lincoln Strategy Group is the new name of the political consulting and PR firm previously known as Sproul and Associates.

In June 2008, "a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy ... for purposes of 'registering voters.'" The contract was controversial, as the firm (under its previous name, Sproul and Associates) "has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket." [1]

Nathan Sproul, who was formerly the executive director of the Arizona State Republican Party, founded Sproul and Associates in 2003 and is based in Tempe, Arizona. Sproul and Associates had worked in 21 different states for various city, state, congressional, and national campaigns. He currently serves as the co-founder and Managing Director of Lincoln Strategy Group. Sproul himself specializes in campaign/public affairs management, get-out-the vote efforts, ballot initiative management, media and public relations, and business and political leadership. [2]

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Charming.

[crickets]

13. Other interesting names on the itemized FEC report

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00751701/1436461/sb/ALL

Atlas Strategy Group LLC http://www.atlasstrategygroup.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggkeller

Gregg Keller is the Principal of Atlas Strategy Group, and widely considered to be one of the top public affairs specialists working in the country today. Atlas provides extensive strategic services to Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, non-profits and political campaigns across a range of practices including coalition-building, third party engagement, campaign management, strategic consulting, communications and fundraising.

Keller has served as Executive Director to two of America's most prominent political organizations: the American Conservative Union (ACU) and the Faith & Freedom Coalition (FFC). ACU is the country's oldest grassroots conservative organization and hosts of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest political event held annually in the United States. Keller was the first-ever Executive Director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, America's largest social conservative grassroots organization, with more than 1 million members and affiliates in more than 30 states. [MORE]

Gregg is a busy bee who also has worked for Mitt Romney, John McCain, Jim Talent, and Bush-Cheney Missouri.

Kanye is pulling in big guns for his little venture as far as consulting goes.