The pro-Trump gravy train for aspiring grifters

[Professor Emeritus]

I've been seeing Joe Collins's name all over town but mostly ignored it, cause I've taught myself to filter out virtually all advertisements and political messaging. But someone stuck his flier in the fence and I finally picked it up. It was interesting because it didn't say shyt about his party affiliation and, though I assumed he was a Republican, none of his proposals would actually align with the Republican platform in Congress.

So I looked him up....and back in January he was running for the GREEN PARTY's nomination for president, holding rallies for "peace and equality" and saying the Democrats and Republicans had failed the country.

Rally for Peace and Equality!! - IssueWire

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Yet by summer he was endorsing Trump, donating money to Trump's campaign, and getting a LOT of money in return:

I googled more and everything was explained. He's straight running a grift on Trumpers.

Earlier this year, Navy veteran Joe Collins was an obscure candidate for president, running on the Green Party ticket to fight against the “party establishment.”

Now, he’s one of two Republicans running to unseat Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). And his campaign is spending generously on Uber rides, steakhouse dinners, plane flights and nights at five-star hotels, including President Donald Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel.

The southern California native never got his presidential campaign off the ground. After a quiet launch in January, he changed his party affiliation to Republican in mid-February before terminating his campaign in May.

As a pro-Trump Republican running against a polarizing Democrat, Collins’ congressional effort is much more successful. He raised more than $451,000 from July through September, mostly from small donors. That’s a stunning three-month haul for a relatively unknown candidate with little chance of winning in a deep-blue district.

Collins quickly put the newfound cash to use. In August, Collins posted photos with Donald Trump Jr. and Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani at a fundraiser for Trump in the Hamptons. He got there by making a $5,600 contribution from his campaign to Trump’s joint fundraising committee. Collins’ campaign also spent nearly $9,000 at Trump’s hotel in Washington, between a July event and a September stay.

That’s a tiny slice of the roughly $20 million political committees have spent at Trump-owned businesses since the 2016 election cycle. But the Trump Organization isn’t the only company benefiting from Collins’ campaign spending.

In just three months, Collins’ brand-new campaign spent nearly $59,000 on travel and food, making up nearly 14 percent of his spending. That includes more than $19,000 on Delta flights, nearly $5,000 on Uber rides and a whopping $14,609 at the Palm Restaurant, a high-end Washington steakhouse that features portraits of major political players on its walls.

Much of the remainder of Collins’ spending went toward fundraising efforts to keep the money flowing in. The Collins campaign paid an unknown company called Pure Strategy Solutions $77,378 through September to do some of its fundraising work. There is no record of the company in California public records, nor is there any record of the company’s Beverly Hills address.

Collins didn’t respond to a request for comment about his campaign spending by the time of publication. In an email delivered Nov. 14, Collins said the Palm Restaurant event was a fundraiser gone wrong with a “not legitimate” group called Vets For Trump. Collins said the group left his campaign with the massive bill and his campaign is in the process of trying to recoup the money.

The campaign primarily utilized Alexandria, Va., firm Campaign Solutions to raise money, shelling out $271,833 for online fundraising consulting.

Those fundraising efforts appeared to pay off. Collins took in a stunning 81 percent of his campaign cash from donors giving $200 or less. Of candidates to raise at least $100,000 so far, only Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) collects a higher rate, at nearly 82 percent.

Right behind Collins in the small donor metric is Omar Navarro, another Republican challenger in the same district. Navarro, a perennial candidate, was blown out by Waters in both 2016 and 2018 but is nonetheless running again this cycle.

Navarro, who spends much of his time campaigning, paid himself nearly $34,884 with campaign money during last year’s midterms and $13,210 so far this year. That’s on top of tens of thousands of dollars spent on transportation, electronics, hotel visits and meals, including $3,878 at Trump’s D.C. hotel and steakhouse, BLT Prime. Navarro sent another $3,000 to the United Latino Foundation, a Navarro-run organization with no apparent paper trail that says its goal is to spread conservatism to the Latino community.

Maxine Waters’ blue seat isn’t up for grabs — but the lucrative chance to challenge her is

(The article also covers some Maxine Waters corruption but that's a different thread.)



It also turns out that he might be kind of a quack:

For instance, in his initial filing, he attached documents claiming that he transferred a combined $800.2 billion worth of assets to his private trust, the “Royal Family of Collins.”

Among the assets Collins claimed to have transferred to his trust was his Social Security number, birth certificate, his own self and his presidential campaign, each of which he asserted as being worth $100 billion each.

His trust also contains a lengthy “schedule of fees,” which includes charges of $15 million for “DNA or Body Fluids,” with an additional “extraction” charge of $100 million for the “Forced giving of fluids/samples.”

CA GOP Endorsed Candidate Who Said His Bodily Fluids Were Worth $15M



As of his June 30th report, Joe Collins had raised $3.2 million from Republicans for a race he cannot win despite having been running for the Green Party in the same fukking election.

California District 43 2020 Race


The grift is legit.

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[ORDER_66]

no shyt...

 

[88m3]

what a jackass

what are the odds of this guy going to prison within the next 5 years?

 

[FAH1223]

$14,000 at The Palm? I could believe that

I went there a lot at my last job cause we would host international delegations and take them out for lunch. Paying $35 per person for set menu.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

5000 on uber rides?

the transfer of 800 billion?

legendary

 

[Professor Emeritus]

5000 on uber rides?

the transfer of 800 billion?

legendary

To me it feels like 2020 is the first year that you could be a legit nutcase, no history, zero chance of winning, and yet pile up millions in campaign financing just by making White people happy.

That woman running against Omar was a completely nut too yet I'm sure she raised tons of cash. I haven't really been following but I bet the ones running against AOC had nutty qualities. The mere fact that they're trying to beat non-white women who piss Trump off is enough for people to hand them fortunes no questions asked, and if you can be their Black figurehead of an excuse it's worth double.

 

[Serious]

To me it feels like 2020 is the first year that you could be a legit nutcase, no history, zero chance of winning, and yet pile up millions in campaign financing just by making White people happy.

That woman running against Omar was a completely nut too yet I'm sure she raised tons of cash. I haven't really been following but I bet the ones running against AOC had nutty qualities. The mere fact that they're trying to beat non-white women who piss Trump off is enough for people to hand them fortunes no questions asked, and if you can be their Black figurehead of an excuse it's worth double.

Idk how @DEAD7 missed this opportunity to c00n.

 

[DEAD7]

Idk how @DEAD7 missed this opportunity to c00n.

Actively looking now
Too many bags being tossed to negroes willing to shyt on liberals.

 

[Serious]

Actively looking now
Too many bags being tossed to negroes willing to shyt on liberals.

This could have been you breh.

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

I been thinking the past year that this type of scenario would make an excellent screenplay. All these people who had zero political aspirations or leanings barely 3 or 4 years ago, or who tilted even slightly left who then became MAGA'd out once they saw the potential dollar signs.

This dude is just extreme with it. He's not even trying to hid it.

Dude became a MAGA billboard just to get free meals and car rides.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Actively looking now
Too many bags being tossed to negroes willing to shyt on liberals.

Why you not getting in on the action?

 

[DEAD7]

Why you not getting in on the action?

Cause i want to own libs without being racist and you gotta be willing to dog whistle to secure the bag...

 

[Fillerguy]

Somebody asked, in HL not to long ago, how to get into politics. I told them to join the military, make some right wingers friends (gonna have to c00n it up to be accepted) and eat.
Was it this negro. You moved way too fast on this one breh. This was supposed to be 7 year plan at minimum. The Feds watching. He didnt even knock up a Becky to seal the deal

 

[FAH1223]