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The FEC says Jill Stein, who raised $7.3 million to recount the 2016 election, owes them more than $66,000 for campaign finance violations
The Green Party's Jill Stein raised millions of dollars to recount the 2016 US presidential election, promising her donors mostly liberals grappling with Donald Trump's shock win in the Electoral College radical transparency and direct democracy.
But instead of verifying the outcome of the last presidential election, a majority of the $7.3 million that Stein raised for counting votes has, per a review of of her campaign's financial disclosures, been spent on other things.
It went to salaries for her core campaign staff, who were kept on for another three years, lawyers for Stein's personal legal defense in the US Senate's Russia investigation, and tens of thousands of dollars in fines levied by the Federal Election Commission.
The Stein campaign is now out of money, still owing tens of thousands of dollars to the FEC for failing to disclose how it was spending donations, mandatory reports sometimes filed over a year late. That means an oft-repeated campaign promise will not be fulfilled: a ranked-choice vote for donors on how to spend any money they gave that wasn't going toward the original cause.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jill-stein-still-owes-fec-campaign-finance-penalites-2020-10?amp
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)trump get selected.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)And can you believe this: I received an email a little while ago from them that encouraged me to write in the Green president and vice-president candidates (the Green Party did not make it onto the ballot in Wisconsin). A new definition of chutzpah.
StClone
(11,683 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)We don't care and shouldn't bother paying this ANY attention. This isn't the issue in 2020
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)It will be huge...biggest fine ever seen in this country...phenomenal.
I have no sympathy for Stein. I thought I saw where she was running again this election. Surely not.
jrthin
(4,836 posts)Putin doesn't foot the bill.