Busted: Minnesota GOP candidate reportedly spent campaign money at nude Florida strip club

[riversedge]

Source: raw story



Matthew Chapman May 23, 2024 10:24PM ET


Republicans in Minnesota just endorsed Royce White, a former NBA player and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist, for the Senate race against Democratic incumbent Amy Klobuchar. But it turns out he is hiding a lot of skeletons in his closet.

White, up to this point, is best known for wearing the words "Trump Won" on his head during the Big 3 League games in 2023 and for proclaiming that women these days "have become too mouthy" in an interview with Trump strategist Steve Bannon. But that's not all — he may have broken campaign finance law in a very colorful way.

According to The Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger and Mini Racker, "At five in the morning one week after Republican Royce White lost his 2022 Minnesota congressional primary, his campaign shelled out more than $1,200 in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses — an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called 'Gold Rush Cabaret.' That is just one among dozens of outlandish but previously unreported payments that The Daily Beast has identified from White’s 2022 Federal Election Commission filings. Several campaign finance experts characterized some of the expenses as potentially illegal spending."

White, for his part, claims these were all legitimate campaign expenses.

......................The unusual expenses include a total of more than $100,000 in mysterious wire transfers and checks reported as paid to the campaign; hefty tabs at spicy nightspots; getaways at posh hotels in at least seven states; thousands of dollars in limousine services; unexplained cash withdrawals; eye-popping purchases from electronics, sporting goods, clothing, and musical instrument retailers; and the DribbleUp smart basketball training app that White himself admitted might be personal use.".....................................








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[riversedge]

1. "If you dare, do a search for the c-word in Royce's tweets. It's grim stuff...........

I will pass doing a search on the c-word for Royce's tweets.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
If you dare, do a search for the c-word in Royce's tweets. It's grim stuff. Again, the Minnesota Republican Party thinks this guy is US Senate material. There's no bottom.

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[Aussie105]

2. I know the 'c' word too! Does that make me US Senate material?

No, I don't think so either.

I'm sure that $1,200 at the strip club was well spent, but maybe it should have come out of his own pocket?

Republicans are easily confused between money that is theirs and money that is not theirs.
And misuse of campaign funds is so easy to detect, as well.

[Irish_Dem]

3. How do you spend $1200 at a strip club?

[unweird]

4. One lap dance at a time making it rain

https://a.co/d/6VCrOxx

[Ray Bruns]

7. Gotta get me one of those. Does it come preloaded with money?

[Irish_Dem]

8. Maybe some of it was spent on drinks?

[Captain Zero]

21. In the VIP Room, poem by Captain Zero

Try the buffet,
tuck a buck,
don't mouth off to the bouncer named Chuck.
and then,
let me whisper in your ear,
all the things you want to hear,
In the VIP ROOM, my dear.


-Captain Zero

[Eugene]

9. A few top-end bottles of wine plus tips can do it.

Gold Rush Cabaret's VIP bottle service starts at $100.

https://goldrushcabaret.com/events-calendar/miami-vip-bottle-specials/

[Irish_Dem]

12. You go to a strip club and drink expensive wine?

I was not expecting to hear that.

Interesting.

[TheRealNorth]

14. VIP Room

[Irish_Dem]

15. VIP room, expensive wine, lap dances.

I am getting an education.

Mind boggles at the VIP room.

[John Shaft]

5. Imbecile

[Mawspam2]

6. NBA star?

After being drafted #16 in 2012 by the Houston Rockets, he refused to get on planes claiming mental issues. His entire NBA career consists of playing 3 games for the Sacramento Kings earning a total of 3 minutes of playing time, 0 points, 0 assists, and 0 rebounds.

After this he got traded to Canada because even the G League didn't want him.

Yes, Republicans, he's perfect US Senate material.

https://amp.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/2023/07/10/64ab5390268e3e69068b45c3.html

[Grins]

10. "...at nude Florida strip club"?

Florida was "nude"? Who wrote this?

My choice would be "titty-bar!"

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Bugged Me Too

You weren't alone in that reaction.
In addition, "former NBA player" is only correct in the most technical sense.
Here's his career stat line. (He played 3 minutes, one season)

Stats
SAC · 2013-14 season
0.0 Pts. 0.0. Reb. 0.0 Ast. 0.0. FG%

He scored as many points in the NBA as I did. If he wasn't 6'8", he'd never have been a starter in HS.

[republianmushroom]

11. More of those fine republican values.

[Martin68]

13. Just kidding, but I was trying to imagine a club with no clothing in which strippers take off their clothing.

[peppertree]

16. That's GOP family values for you

[Mc Mike]

18. Just another standard repuglinazi dickhead.

The repug party keeps stamping them out on an assembly line, like an automated machine stamping out license plates.

[FakeNoose]

19. According to the story, this happened after he lost his primary bid in 2022

Probably needed to use up the leftover campaign money because ... well, you never give it back, am I right? I'm sure it's a standing rule for the Repuke candidates anyway.

[mahina]

20. Not counting chickens but

What are some good spots for Amy’s election night celebration?

As McConnell says, they do have a candidate quality issue.