{"id":539524,"date":"2021-05-25T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539524"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:20:19","slug":"despite-email-promises-pelosi-did-not-match-campaign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-email-promises-pelosi-did-not-match-campaign-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Email Promises, Pelosi Did Not Match Campaign Donations"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdespite-email-promises-pelosi-did-not-match-campaign-donations%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=539524&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nancy-pelosi-scaled-e1621950249274.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic California Rep. and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not match campaign donations, despite promising to personally do so in numerous emails to supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi promised to match donations in at least 50 emails to supporters sent between January and April, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pelosi-campaign-matching-funds-507f120e-f4c8-4363-a8da-e8e69ffe9568.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Monday. However, FEC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/?cycle=2022&amp;data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00213512&amp;line_number=F3-11D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">records<\/a> reveal that she has not given any of her own money to her campaign. The promises could create legal problems for Pelosi, according to Axios, which drew from a recent Department of Justice charge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/nevada-man-pleads-guilty-election-fundraising-scam-and-cheating-taxpayers-out-paycheck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.6200716845878\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New: Nancy Pelosi\u2019s campaign sent at least 50 fundraising emails from Jan to March promising she would \u201cpersonally\u201d match donations. But she\u2019s never reported giving to her own campaign, in Q1 or otherwise <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GLMORe7Ju7\">https:\/\/t.co\/GLMORe7Ju7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lachlan\/status\/1396993607597428737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Campaign finance attorney Jan Baran, a partner at Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky Josefiak PLLC, seemed to welcome further regulation of email fundraising using the \u201cdonation matching\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can do that if it\u2019s true, but usually fundraising professionals who send out that type of message know it\u2019s not true, and if you intentionally misrepresent something to take somebody\u2019s money away from them that\u2019s going to be fraud,\u201d Baran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campaignsandelections.com\/campaign-insider\/are-email-fundraising-practitioners-ready-for-a-federal-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Campaigns &amp; Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Many politicians in both parties use the promise of matching donations to convince supporters to offer money. Campaign finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/introduction-campaign-finance\/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laws<\/a> limit the amount of money individuals can give during an election cycle, but candidates are allowed to give unlimited amounts to their own campaigns. The offer of matching funds can be an attractive option for wealthier candidates such as Pelosi and former President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/electionemails2020.org\/entity\/59a162dda53958d2b8d3cd1d0fd27d94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump<\/a>&nbsp;in an effort to raise funds. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/03\/small-dollar-donations-campaigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Democrats Pushing To Match Your Tax Dollars To Small Campaign Contributions At An Astonishing Rate)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2020 election cycle was the most expensive in United States history, with candidates and donors spending $14.4 billion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2021\/02\/2020-cycle-cost-14p4-billion-doubling-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Open Secrets. All four candidates in the Georgia Senate runoffs \u2014 Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock and Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/28\/georgia-democrats-worried-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke<\/a> spending records.<\/p>\n<p>Spending on some Senate races did not pay off for Democrats, however. Challengers Amy McGrath, Jaime Harrison, Theresa Greenfield and Barbara Bollier outspent their respective Republican opponents Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, and Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall by a combined $125 million, according to financial records. All four lost their elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic California Rep. and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not match campaign donations, despite promising to personally do so in numerous emails to supporters.Pelosi promised to match donations in at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312925,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nancy-pelosi-scaled-e1621950249274.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Despite Email Promises, Pelosi Did Not Match Campaign Donations","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nancy-pelosi-scaled-e1621950249274.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Despite Email Promises, Pelosi Did Not Match Campaign Donations","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539524","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}