Matt Gaetz and MTG’s failed fundraising tour
Matt Gaetz and MTG’s failed fundraising tour
Matt Gaetz, the disgraced Florida representative who is at serious risk of prosecution in a sex trafficking scheme, and his QAnon-loving colleague Representative Majorie Taylor-Greene bet big on a joint nationwide fundraising tour this summer to fund their grandiose political ambitions. It really didn’t go so well.
According to the Daily Beast, between May 7 and July 23, the gruesome twosome’s campaigns and joint fundraising committees posted cumulative losses of $342,000. The committee raised only $59,345.54 in contributions at a spending cost of $287,036.19, meaning it alone was over $225,000 in the red. (These numbers don’t count the $150,000 that both Gaetz and Taylor-Greene contributed from their own campaigns.)
The Daily Beast reported, Gaetz’s and Greene’s respective campaigns did raise a relatively impressive $1.34 million and $1.31 million through the second quarter of 2021, but that these numbers were actually far lower than the totals they raised prior to the announcement of the fundraising campaign. Several venues canceled events related to the tour, with one citing security issues.
