{"id":1741724,"date":"2022-11-17T05:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741724"},"modified":"2022-11-17T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T10:03:43","slug":"meet-the-democratic-grifters-who-profited-from-the-2022-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-democratic-grifters-who-profited-from-the-2022-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Democratic Grifters Who Profited From the 2022 Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-democratic-grifters-who-profited-from-the-2022-midterms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The balance of power in Washington is still up for grabs after a contentious midterm election, but one group can celebrate regardless of which party comes out on top: the anti-Trump political action committees whose leaders pocketed the money they ostensibly raised to attack the former president.<\/p>\n<p>These groups raised millions from progressive donors, pledging that their funds would help elect Democrats across the country. The Democratic Coalition, which senator-elect John Fetterman\u2019s (D., Pa.) campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/14\/fetterman-camp-goes-after-dem-super-pac-accuses-them-of-grifting-00061931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> as a &#8220;scam PAC,&#8221; spent just $2,840 of the $375,000 it&#8217;s raised on campaign advertisements, but doled out $65,000 to executive director Scott Dworkin\u2019s consulting firm. Dworkin was one of several Democratic grifters who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/21\/white-house-operative-fetterman-grifters-00063005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came together<\/a> at an Oct. 21 White House social media summit.<\/p>\n<p>This was the latest election cycle where anti-Trump PACs profited without making a real impact. The Lincoln Project, whose cofounder once <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2021\/02\/lincoln-project-toxic-workplace\/\">touted<\/a> the organization as a vehicle for its leaders to attain &#8220;generational wealth,&#8221; raked in $90 million during the 2020 election cycle, over half of which went to its founders\u2019 consulting firms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/millions-raised-by-lincoln-project-goes-to-companies-run-by-groups-founders-records-show\">according<\/a> to Fox Business. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aoc\/status\/1324885624881606657\">dismissed<\/a> the group as a &#8220;scam.&#8221; Wary of its reputation, Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan\u2019s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/lincoln-project-sucks\/\">begged<\/a> the Lincoln Project to stay away from the race in May.<\/p>\n<p>Dworkin, whose Democratic Coalition doled out $128,000 to its top employees and consultants, was in good company at the White House\u2019s October summit. Also in attendance was the executive editor of Occupy Democrats, whose Election Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/committee\/C00718510\/\">raised<\/a> $1.3 million in the midterm cycle and paid $250,000 to a consulting firm owned by cofounder Omar Rivero, all while spending just $120,590 on political advertisements, according to Federal Election Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/independent-expenditures\/?q_spender=C00718510&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2022&#038;cycle=2022&#038;is_notice=false&#038;data_type=processed\">records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a since-deleted tweet, Rivero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/occupy-democrats-super-pac-defends-lack-donations-candidates-1746799\">defended<\/a> the quarter-million-dollar payout, saying &#8220;If you understood the time and effort that goes into making viral memes\u2014and the impact that they have\u2014you might respect our work more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rivero told <em>Newsweek<\/em> in September that there was nothing wrong with the Occupy Democrats Election Fund paying employees for their work. He touted that his group delivered &#8220;over 12.3 million meme impressions, over 1.2 million engagements, and over 100,000 shares&#8221; with its $50,000 investment in the failed 2021 effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.).<\/p>\n<p>The founders of the anti-Trump group MeidasTouch also rubbed shoulders at the White House social media summit. Founded by three brothers in March 2020, the progressive super PAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balance of power in Washington is still up for grabs after a contentious midterm election, but one group can celebrate regardless of which party comes out on top: the anti-Trump political action committees whose leaders pocketed the money they ostensibly raised to attack the former president.<br \/>\nThe post Meet the Democratic Grifters Who Profited From the 2022 Midterms appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1741727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}