Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar set a new personal fundraising record following the January 6 Electoral College certification and insurrection. Gosar played a prominent role in objecting to Arizona’s votes for Joe Biden, and had also encouraged Trump supporters to come to Washington DC for the January 6 events.
According to this week’s filing with the Federal Election Commission, Gosar raised $120,000 in the 11 weeks following the insurrection. That was double his average receipts for his five previous comparable* efforts. In fact, his collections the past three months from contributors across the country was nearly one-fifth of what he raised in the entire 2019-2020 cycle.
Standing out among the new contributions was a $1,000 contribution from the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. An analysis of Gosar’s reports indicate that political contributions from Native American nations in Arizona and around the country have dropped significantly in the past couple of years.
Arizona’s Politics has reached out to UKB officials in light of this week’s news that Gosar is co-founding an America First Caucus in Congress, with a manifesto that calls for Americans and immigrants to have “respect for (our nation’s) uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”
(To review the finance filing, head to ArizonasPolitics.com.)
Something’s happening here. “Political action committee contributions from businesses, industry groups, trade associations and unions plunged about 80% to Republican politicians who objected to certifying states’ Electoral College votes for Joe Biden as president, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.” “Business PAC Donations Tanked To Republicans Who Challenged Biden Vote: Report”, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/business-pac-contritions-tank-gop-after-electoral-college-challenge-wsj_n_607a3ba2e4b051555024ce20
And yet, ““Republicans loyal to Donald Trump raised record sums of money in the first three months of this year, even as US corporations said they would pause or stop political giving in the wake of the January 6 siege on the US Capitol,” the Financial Times reports.” “Trump Loyalists Raise Record Sums”, https://politicalwire.com/2021/04/17/trump-loyalists-raise-record-sums/
“The figures underscore the enduring enthusiasm of Trump’s supporter base and the Republican grassroots. It also highlights the increasing power of small-dollar donors at a time when corporations have withheld political spending over the US Capitol attacks, which interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory and left five people dead.”
The MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump is still in thrall to this wannabe fascist dictator.
The vast majority of.contributions are from outside Arizona, including many from Florida. Does Gosar.give a sugar about Arizona at all? Grandstanding nationally is more important. Useless moron.