{"id":294,"date":"2022-09-28T00:18:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/occupy-democrats-occupying-some-sketchy-spending-handsomely-compensated-for-it-hotair\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T00:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T00:18:36","slug":"occupy-democrats-occupying-some-sketchy-spending-handsomely-compensated-for-it-hotair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conservative-politics.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/occupy-democrats-occupying-some-sketchy-spending-handsomely-compensated-for-it-hotair\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Democrats occupying some sketchy spending, handsomely compensated for it \u2013 HotAir"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Playing out over Twitter yesterday, I found this very interesting, and have been waiting for a better money sleuth than I to dig through. A couple have stepped forward to parse the numbers.<\/p>\n

A quick primer: The slick whistle who founded and runs Occupy Democrats is a youngish guy named Omar Rivero. Occupy Democrats, according to his LinkedIn page, is:<\/p>\n

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What they are is a snarky, hateful little bunch of authoritarian trolls. An example:<\/p>\n

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But Omar and his brother have amassed quite a loyal following of similarly charitable and rational Leftists, who also pony over funds to help further their chosen pet projects. They are good at raising money.<\/p>\n

According to what another really<\/em> liberal fellow on Twitter figured out after rooting through their financial filings on Open Secrets, they\u2019re really good at keeping it in-house, too.<\/p>\n

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The \u2018Occupy Democrats Election Fund\u2019 PAC\u2019, run by Omar Rivero, raised $797K from 2021-2022. <\/p>\n

They contributed $0 to federal candidates. <\/p>\n

And they spent $577k on \u2018Fundraising Consultants\u2019. <\/p>\n

Would @OccupyDemocrats<\/a> & @OmarRiverosays<\/a> care to explain? pic.twitter.com\/LPoj1ZFbIx<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not a penny<\/em> to any federal candidate? How odd, when the very PAC name itself implies it\u2019s an election \u201cfund\u201d for just that purpose.<\/p>\n

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Humpf. Where\u2019d the money go, and don\u2019t we seem to ask that a bunch around Democratic activist groups? Let\u2019s see. Oh, lookee here! A fair chunk of change went to \u2013 take a wild guess, come on<\/em> \u2013 brother and co-founder Rafael Rivero!<\/p>\n

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Cha-CHING<\/em>! Isn\u2019t that grand? Lachlan Markay pointed out that Rivero, in denying anything amiss, actually misspoke about his own Occupy Democrats Election Fund PAC\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n

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The guy who runs Occupy Democrats is apparently unfamiliar with his own group’s legal structure. It’s a hybrid pac, which, unlike a super pac, maintains a segregated bank account from which it can contribute directly to candidates https:\/\/t.co\/j4S1pRzhTs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A commenter posits that a constantly changing \u201ccustodian of records\u201d roster might make it difficult for Rivera to know who\u2019s on first, or plausibly deniable, too. Does he want to know? I dug through a couple of pages of their FEC filings<\/a> myself and noticed the same thing another girl did. The only, only<\/em> expenditures to a candidate\u2019s principle election committee\u2026open up to an entirely different recipient.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a new-age graphic designer by that name in Tulsa \u2013 is that who they\u2019re paying $5000 a whack to in the name of the \u201cJohn James\u201d campaign? I can\u2019t begin to say. But of all the John James expenditures listed so far, none go to the campaign.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the increased scrutiny has Rivero tap dancing, blocking people, and earnestly claiming that money went to yet another shell game (although he needs to synch timelines before tweeting )\u2026<\/p>\n

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Omar says Occupy Democrats gives money to Blue Deal LLC (owned by him & his brother) & redirect that money to a \u201crebel alliance\u201d of Facebook meme pages. He says it \u201cstarted back up again two weeks ago\u201d (when did it start?) but they rcvd $250K LAST YEAR. https:\/\/t.co\/1QBHtT1Pa0<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xFU7gNXqxG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Damin Toell (@damintoell) September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026while offering up the saddest, griftiest explanation of what the latest project they need the funding for is.<\/p>\n

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All I can hear in my head is the Duke of Exeter in Branaugh\u2019s Henry V<\/em>, as Henry asks him what the puerile Dauphin of France has sent in the box. With utter disgust, he answers,<\/p>\n

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Tennis balls, my liege.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Memes, my friends. Rivero needs all that money for the memes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n