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@lizburgh

29 Jun

AOC spent $240,000 on Facebook ads in March 2021.

But what were those ads actually advertising?

Where was she running them?

Who was she targeting?

Is she still spending $10k/day on Facebook ads?

Let's find out!

Facebook banned political ads immediately following Election Day 2020, but eventually lifted the ban on March 4, 2021.

Google also lifted their ban on political ads that followed 1/6.

AOC jumped right back into spending big on them...20 months ahead of her next election.

Part 1: What has AOC been advertising on Facebook?

By and large, AOC's tens of thousands of Facebook ads fall into 3 categories:

1) Self-promotional
2) Merch!
3) The Squad

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@lizburgh

28 Jun

AOC took in more money in the 2020 election cycle than Joe Crowley did in his entire 21-year congressional career.

Only *4* Reps out-raised AOC in 2020.

•Steve Scalise
•Kevin McCarthy
•Nancy Pelosi
•Devin Nunes
•AOC

AOC campaigned hard on getting money out of politics and attacked Crowley incessantly for raising ~$3M per cycle.

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@lizburgh

27 Jun

AOC is still using a Brex credit card for a lot of campaign expenditures.

And instead of calling it "Brex" in her accounting system, the campaign calls it "VEYOND!", its long defunct name.

This obscures the *actual* vendors & makes it much harder to see where $ is being spent.

Let's take a look at AOC's 3/25/21 payment to Brex CC🔎

The details are on p.3982 (of 4008) of her Q1 filing if you want to play along at home!

What do you know?! It's mostly obscuring payments to FACEBOOK, just like last time.

*$240k out of $260k*

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg…

AOC's 3/25 credit card payment breaks down as follows 👇

Facebook ad buys:
$30k, 3/8/21
$10k, 3/9/21
$10k, 3/10/21
$40k, 3/12/21
$10k, 3/13/21
$10k, 3/14/21
$30k, 3/15/21
$20k, 3/16/21
$20k, 3/17/21
$10k, 3/18/21
$10k, 3/19/21
$10k, 3/20/21
$20k, 3/22/21
$10k, 3/24/21

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@lizburgh

27 Jun

I think even a lot of people who are tuned-in to Justice Democrats' antics don't realize this:

🔥The Justice Dems became a SuperPAC on May 1, 2020🔥

And if you're thinking
"I thought the Justice Democrats hated SuperPACs? 🤔"

You are correct. They are hypocrites.

(And the first time they tried to turn JusticeDems into a SuperPAC was on 1/9/2017)

By using their new SuperPAC, the Justice Democrats were able to buy nearly $1 MILLION in ads in Jamaal Bowman's race against Eliot Engel.

$620,000 to SUPPORT Bowman
$300,000 to OPPOSE Engel

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@lizburgh

3 Jun

Bernie & Manchin have only cast opposing votes 13% of the time so far this term. But it was closer to 50% over the last few years.

Let's go back & look at some times where Bernie went rogue & voted NO when the Democratic Party voted YES!

(These are just a handful of examples)

Bernie was one of 2 Senators (along with Rand Paul) to vote against Iranian & Russian sanctions in 2017.

Bernie was one of 3 Senators to vote for maintaining the US Embassy in Jerusalem this year.

(1 of the other 2 was Elizabeth Warren)

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@lizburgh

23 Mar

Sunrise Movement has been getting a lot of attention in the last few days.

Just a reminder that in addition to everything else problematic about their organization, they have structured themselves to be the exact types of money they proclaim to hate:

💰 dark money
💰 SuperPAC

Sunrise's organizational status is a 501c4 nonprofit, which is what the term "dark money" almost always refers to in politics!

501c4 nonprofits...
▪️can take unlimited money from individuals, LLC's, etc
▪️can have political goals
▪️do not have to report their donors

And they also have a SuperPAC!

(They're technically a Carey/Hybrid Committee which just means they have both a PAC & a SuperPAC)

SuperPACs...
▪️can take unlimited money from individuals, LLC's, etc

But SuperPACs are not dark $ because they publicly report all donors to the FEC

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