Kansas Republican drew down retirement to finance recount of the state's abortion referendum

[RandySF]

According to The Kansas City Star, the recount “was requested last Friday by Melissa Leavitt, a Colby resident who has testified to the Kansas Legislature about 2020 election conspiracy theories.”

The Star does a great job of laying out just how pitiful and desperate Leavitt and fellow anti-abortion activist Mark Gietzen were to sow doubt over an undoubtable result. Apparently, the two weren’t able to come up with the funds for a statewide hand recount, which meant only nine of the state's 105 counties were examined. And they even paid for part of the audit with a credit card.

From the Star:

Leavitt ultimately raised more than $50,000 online for the abortion recount, but her main benefactor was Mark Gietzen, a longtime anti-abortion activist from Wichita. Gietzen also leads the Kansas Republican Assembly, a hard-right alternative to the traditional Republican Party. Leavitt originally requested a statewide recount, which Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s Office estimated would have cost about $230,000. Leavitt and Gietzen on Monday managed to put forward just under $120,000, with Gietzen using a credit card for the Kansas Republican Assembly and money from his own retirement account.

You read that correctly. Conservatives are drawing down their retirement and running up credit card payments to finance their fascist fantasies.





https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/kansas-abortion-recount-rcna44201?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[RussBLib]

1. Idiots

Who can't face reality, so waste everyone's time!

[gratuitous]

2. I don't think President Biden is going to service your debt, Melissa

Sucks to be you.

[PortTack]

3. A fool and his money....why not just burn it??

[James48]

4. What?

“… Gietzen using a credit card for the Kansas Republican Assembly.”


Um, that would be, I’m positive, a violation of the rules on what the Kansas Republican Assembly” can use their credit card for. That’s not an expense OF THE ASSEMBLY, nor any function of the Assembly/legislature.

Where I worked in government, anybody authorizing such an expense would be fired, and will update be subject to criminal investigation of misuse of a government credit card. That’s gotta be a felony at those cash levels.

Update: it IS a felony, if the amount charged was over $1,000. See Kansas Statue 21.5828 .

Somebody call the police and report it as a violation. Criminal use of a credit card. 21.5828! Should be someone from Kansas reporting the crime

https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/kansas/ks-statutes/kansas_statutes_21-5828

[slightlv]

5. To think, they hate women THAT much! N/T

[Kansaskid]

6. Refusing to pay

The recount did not find the result that he desired in Sedgwick county (Wichita). He has refused to pay for the recount.

[ZonkerHarris]

7. I need to figure out a way to separate some of these suckers from their money

they are duuuuuuuumb

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. That's money that can't be used for campaigns.

[Demovictory9]

9. expect them to work like hell to keep abortion off the ballot