Scam PAC
released its post-general election accounts a couple of days ago, so I thought I'd do a quick breakdown of their spending during the election.
First though the headlines from this set of accounts:
- They raised 100K and spent 150K
- This includes 4000 in a number of Amazon purchases for "office supplies" which I guess means toys for Wu, since ScamPAC has no office to supply.
- A lot of Wu's favourites picked up bundles of cash, including the perennial bungs to Amanda Winn-Lee
- Even Frank got in on the deal, he got 700 bucks for his "strategic consulting" services
Anyway, I think you can broadly break down how Wu spends the PAC money in to five categories:
- Cash direct to Wu herself, or to Frank.
- Media Production
- Media Distribution
- Candidate Assistance, i.e. direct grants to candidates or other PACs
- Overheads, including professional services, fees, consulting and other miscellaneous expenses that don't fit in the other categories
Here's how the breakdown looks:
As you can see, actually distributing the media the PAC produces is the smallest category of expenses. I also included in that category all the advertisements they bought on facebook, which I strongly suspect were all solicitations for donations not actually attempts at GOTV or persuasion. I don't actually have any samples of their ads so I can't prove it, so I just lumped it all in the same category.
Candidate assistance was inflated by a single 50K donation to "Change Campaign Super PAC" in support of candidate who lost. In fact, with the exception of Ed Markey, I think every single candidate scam PAC supported lost their respective elections, and most of those were primaries.
What this reveals is that the PAC does 3 things:
- Pay consultants to get money for them
- Spend that money lavishly on producing videos no one will ever see
- Pat Wu on the back with thousands of dollars for her "hard work."
The Wu family has received $30K in the four months the PAC has been operating, not counting various "reimbursements" for expenditures. Wu has talked a lot about hiring people, paid field organisers, etc. but these are nowhere to be seen in the accounts. Rebellion PAC does nothing except satisfy Wu's pathological desire to be in charge of people and be someone important.
Edit for schadenfreude:
I just remembered this:
Never mind Wu. You only missed your goal by 70%.