A prominent Democrat in Congress spent over $100,000 of their campaign money on family members during the 2022 midterm election cycle. Federal records made this sizable payment public, demonstrating this prominent representative’s devotion to their closest allies.
Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, who played a key role in assisting then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden win his state’s presidential primary in 2020, was paid tens of thousands of dollars, according to Fox News “to a company linked to his son-in-law,” while he also gave “nearly $100,000 to his grandson, Federal Election Commission records show.”
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“While it’s legal for federal politicians to pay family members from their campaigns, ethics experts have generally disapproved of the practice. Despite this, both political parties have taken advantage of the perk,” the report continued.
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According to documents, Congressman Clyburn’s daughter and son-in-law contributed $57,500 in rent to 49 Magnolia Blossom LLC during the previous election campaign. Walter A. Reed is the registered agent of this business, according to South Carolina corporate records.
According to his papers, Clyburn also paid his grandson Walter A.C. Reed $94,000 in “campaign management fees” during the midterm election season.
Since his first victory in 1993, Congressman James Clyburn of South Carolina has had a fair amount of electoral security. Recently, the devotion was paid back when President Biden chose his daughter to serve as co-chair of a regional council on eradicating poverty. She is currently assisting in leading initiatives for communities all around the Southeast United States after receiving Senate approval earlier this year.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters has always supported the party that bears her name, yet there are over $1.2 million in payments that have been sent to her daughter since 2004. One of these payments was for six figures in 2022.
“Karen Waters pocketed $192,300 from her mother’s campaign to keep her ‘slate mailer’ operation afloat between Jan. 2021 and Dec. 2022, a Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission filings shows. The setup involves outside campaigns paying Waters’ campaign to appear on the slate mailers – or endorsement mailers – sent out to constituents in the Los Angeles area,” Fox News reported separately.
“The practice is highly unusual on the federal level, and Waters appears to be the only national politician using it to grab committee cash. Slate mailers, however, are commonplace in her home state of California, though critics say it involves deceptive practices over one campaign paying another for a politician’s backing in an election. Waters received the green light to run the operation from the Federal Election Commission in the fall of 2004. Since then, Karen Waters has received more than $1.2 million in payments from her mother’s campaign,” the outlet added.
Legislators may appoint relatives to roles inside campaigns, however ethical authorities strongly advise against this practice.
The problematic practice of employing relatives for political campaigns has just come to light, and Republican politicians are eager to take action.
The Family Integrity to Reform Elections Act, which would prohibit candidates from utilizing campaign cash for personal benefit and restrict money flowing to their immediate family members, was introduced by Rep. Pat Fallon, shaking up Texas politics.
If this measure is passed, candidates who willfully violate one of its provisions will be subject to consequences.
“The Family Integrity to Reform Elections (FIRE) Act is a critical step to reducing nepotistic practices in American campaigns. Allowing direct family members to be on the take of campaigns must come to an end. For example, Maxine Waters, the worst perpetrator, has given her daughter over $1.1 million in campaign funds. This is utterly egregious, and I will not stand by as the integrity of our elections is further diminished,” Fallon told the Daily Caller.
“Maxine Waters [paid] $1.1 million to her daughter from campaign funds,” Fallon said in a statement. “Ilhan Omar, $2.9 million to her husband from campaign funds. James Clyburn, over $200,000 to multiple family members from his campaign.”
“The numbers speak for themselves,” Fallon added. “Americans are sick of politicians abusing their voters’ hard-earned money. This modern-day spoils system must end. My bill shines a light on shady campaign finance practices while punishing those who take advantage of these funds to enrich their families.”
waters has done this for years. So has pelosi, schumer and many other elected officials in our government. They go there to get rich for themselves as well as their families! They are not there for the people of America, only for themselves!
Sounds like they should get the same treatment we gave a few candidates here in mass before it went totally lib thanks to obama, senate theif liz and the dems who totally corrupted the state since. We put them in jail for bribery. They did take bribes. BUT OH, NOT SURPRISED. CLYBURN IS A TOTAL RACIST PUSHING ABSOLUTE BLACK SURPREMACY POWER UPON THE NATION UNDER THE DISGUISE IT’S WHITE. CLYBURN PICKED BIDEN AND FORCED DO NOTHING KAM ONTO THE NATION. AND WE ALL KNOW THAT WATERS GOT THE WHOLE NATION TO SEE A CRIMINAL WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE AS A MURDER CAUSE HE DID IT AS A MEANS TO NOT BE ARRESTED. FLOYD WAS A SUICIDE. I WAS SKEPTICAL UNTIL I WATCHED THE TRIAL AND SAW THE EVIDENCE BETWEEN THE PERSON DISTRACTING THE OFFICERS BY APPROACHING AN BACKINGOFF. AND FLOYD ALWAYS THINKING HE CAN BEAT THE RAP BY INJUSTING AN OVERDOSE. HE PLAYED RUSSIAN RULA AND LOST. IT WAS SUICIDE. JUST LIKE THE TWO BOYS THAT DIED LAST WEEK. THEY BOTH WOULD STILL BE ALIVE IF THEY “DID NOT RESIST ARREST”. MAYBE OBAMA WAS RIGHT. THE BLACK COMMUNITY CAN’T RAISE LAW ABIDING CHILDREN. WHOSE KNOWS. WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THE BLACK YOUTH HAS THE DEMS BLESSING TO LITERALLY BURN, LOOT AND DESTROY THEIR COMMUNITIES COAST TO COAST, BORDER TO BORDER WITH NO PUNISHMENT CAUSE THEY ARE USING THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF THE BLACK YOUTH, BLACK ON BLACK CRIME TO PUSH A FAKE AGENDA. CALLING BLACK SURPREMACY WHITE. INSISTING ON BLACK FACING WHITE SLAVERY AND IMPLYING IT IS THEIR HISTORY. MOST OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY HERE TODAY CAME IN THE PAST 3 DECADES. SO NONE INVOLVED WITH ANY FORM OF SLAVERY. AND YET THEY WANT REPERATIONS AND WORSE. YOU HAVE OBAMA PRETENDING TO BE THE SON OF. OMG. I GUESS HE THINKS AMERICANS OR AT LEAST THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS STUPID AND CAN’T REMEMBER HIS HISTORY. HIS BLACK FATHER CAME TO AMERICA TO GO TO SCHOOL AND IMPREGNATED A WHITE GIRL CAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WOULD GIFT HIM CITIZENSHIP. WHEN IT DIDN’T HE DUMPED HER, THEM. INSISTING THAT THE WORSE OF SLAVERY WAS BLACK IS AN INSULT. CAUSE THOSE POOR SOULS DIDN’T SURVIVE TO THEIR SECOND YR OF SLAVERY. THEY DON’T HAVE ANCESTORS TO CLAIM LEGACY. SAD JOY REED AND HER BUDDIES THINK STEALING WHITE SLAVERY AND BLACK FACING IT FOR A MOVEMENT IS OK. SAD. AND WORSE. WHEN WILL SOME ONE GIVE CREDIT WHERE IT’S DO. THE WHOLE MOVEMENT TO KILL POLICE OFFICERS BELONGS TO OBAMA. JULY 7, 2016 HE WENT ON TV UNINFORMED AND WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD OF WHAT THE WEIGHT OF HIS WORDS WOULD COST SO MANY AMERICAN CHILDREN, FAMILIES. OBAMA MADE THE STATEMENT THAT COPS SHOULD PAY. CAUSE ON TWO OCCASION BLACK MEN CHOSE TO TELL A POLICE OFFICERS THEY HAD A GUN AND REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THEIR REQUEST TO NOT PUT THEIR HANDS IN THEIR POCKETS SO TO SPEAK. THEY REACH FOR THEIR WEAPONS AND LOST THE DRAW IN ESSENSE. WHEN ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS RAISE THEIR HANDS AND ALLOW THE OFFICER TO CONDUCT THE REMOVAL. FUNNY HOW RESISTING ARREST TIME AND TIME AGAIN SHOWS TO BE A BAD MOVE. THE BLACK YOUTH REFUSE TO LEARN IT. REFUSE TO BE LAW ABIDING AND IT COST THEM. AND IN STEAD OF SHARING A CONDOLENSE OBAMA PUT THE CALL OUT FOR REACTION. AND REACTION HE GOT. IN FACT HE WASN’T ALONE. HE REAFFIRMED HIS STATEMENT WHILE RAISING HILARY CLINTONS HAND AND SHE TOO CALLED OUT “TO MAKE COPS PAY”. AND WE HAVE HAD SO MANY OFFICERS AMBUSHED AND MURDERED STARTING THAT DAY WITH THE 5 IN DALLAS. AND WORSE OF ALL. SOME OF THOSE OFFICERS THOUGHT AFTER SERVING THEIR COUNTRY ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND SURVIVING THEY WHERE LUCKY AND FELT SAFE ENOUGH TO WANT TO KEEP SERVING AND “PROTECTING” THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS AND COMMUNITY. AND THANKS TO DEMS AND OBAMA AND HILLARY ESPECIALLY FOR THEIR JUMPING THE GUN AND STARTING THE LETS KILL COPS MOVEMENT. SO MANY WHO SURVIVED THE BATTLEFIELD AND NOW BEING MURDERED AS A THANK YOU FOR THEIR SERVICE. MAKES THEIR MURDER SO MUCH MORE GROSS. CAUSE THEY AREN’T SUFFERING AND DYING IN A BATTLEFIELD THANKS TO DEMS PAINTING THEM WITH BULLS EYES. THEY ARE BEING GUNNED DOWN BY THOSE THEY TOOK THE OATH TO PROTECT. AND WORSE. GUN DOWN CAUSE THOSE THEY GAVE THE OATH TO. TOLD THEIR COMMUNITY TO KILL THEM. THE D IN DEMS STANDS FOR DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND DEMISE. AND THEIRS YOUR PROOF. THEY ONLY CARE FOR FAMILY AND PARTY. AND THE HELL WITH THE REST OF US THEY TRICK INTO VOTING FOR THEM. WE NEED TO STOP THE DIVISION AND VOTE THOSE CREATURES OUT OF OFFICE. THE FOUNDING FATHERS NEVER MEANT FOR POLITICIANS TO GET RICH IN THEIR DUTIES. AND THANKS TO HILARY AND HER BLACK MAIL BILL TO RESUPPLY OUR TROOPS, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND FOLLOWED BY LIKE SO MANY OF OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS BEING SHREDDED SHE WENT AND SHREDDED THE ONE THAT STATED NO IMMIGRANTS CAN HOLD OFFICE. WE ARE NOW FULL OF ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICIANS WHO HATE OUR NATION. HATE US SO MUCH THAT THEY STOLE THE 2020 ELECTION TO DO THEIR BEST TO CHANGE OUR NATIONS ORIGINS TO SOCIALISM. STOLE OUR NATION FROM US AND GIFTED IT TO CHINA AND THE BILLIONAIRES GLOBALIST FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO HATE OUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES. THE WHOLE GOAL OF THE COUP AND TROJAN PRESIDENT AND CLUELESS USELSESS KAM VP IS TO STEAL OUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES WHILE WE ARE STILL VULNERABLE FROM CHINA BIOWEAPON. THE GLOBALIST KNEW THAT IF TRUMP GOT HIS SECOND TERM WHICH HE WON. THE SWAMP WAS DONE FOR. HE KNEW WHO AND WHAT THEY WERE. HE WOULD HAVE CRUSH THEM AND THEIR PUSH TO SOCIALIZE THE PLANET UNDER CHINA RULE AND THEIR LEADERSHIP BY DEFAULT. WE NEED TO VOTE THEM OUT. STOP THEIR STEALING OUR TAX DOLLARS AND REWARDING THEMSELVES AND LOVED ONES, THEIR MAFIA GROUP NOW KNOWN AS THE DNC. WE NEED TRUMP BACK FOR NATIONAL SECURITY WHILE THEIR IS STILL TIME. BIDEN SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR THE BALLOON ALONE, AS WELL AS THE OPEN BORDER TO A DEADLY PATHOGEN THAT KILLED OVER A MILLION. BIDEN HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS AND THE INVASION IS HIS LEGACY. KAM SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR GIFTING AID TO TERRORIST GROUP. SHE TOOK THE OATH LIKE BIDEN TO SERVE AND PROTECT THE NATION AND YET THEY GIVE AID TO TERRORIST AND KILLED WITH A PATHOGEN. AND LIKE NANCY SAID. IT SHOULDN’T MATTER IF WE DON’T THINK WE WILL HAVE THE VOTES TO WIN A GUILTY OUTCOME. LIKE NANCY SAID. JUST THE FACT YOU WERE IMPEACHED FOREVER MAKES YOU IMPEACHED. WE NEED TO RID THE NATION OF BOTH. GET THE IMPEACHMENTS GOING SO WE CAN STOP THE CORRUPTION OF THE BIDEN HARRIS TROJAN PRESIDENCY. TAKE THE PEN FROM THEIR EVIL HANDS. THEY TOOK AN OATH TO SERVE AND PROTECT FROM ALL FORMS BOTH FORIEGN AND DOMESTIC TERRORIST AND THEY GAVE COMFORT AND SUPPORT TO BOTH. TREASON AND ESPIONAGE. THEY KNEW OF 9/11 AND LET IT HAPPEN CAUSE BUSH WON. THEY HARM OUR TROOPS AND POLICE. THEY MUST GO.
go after these black politicians who are sticking it to us the American people..we are busting our butts trying to make ends meet and to have this going on is a disgrace..get these crooked corrupt politicians to pay that money back that they stole from the American people…WE ARE SICK OF GETTING ROBBED BY THESE GREEDY DEMOCROOKS WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN GREEDY POCKETS TO PAY THEIR FAMILY..IT NEEDS TO BE PAID BACK AND NOW…STOP THIS FROM EVER HAPPENING EVER AGAIN… WHAT A DISGRACE…