Zoom out: Hogg told The New York Times in April that his group would spend $20 million backing younger leaders and primary challengers to Democrats in safe congressional seats to help end a “culture of seniority politics.”
- DNC leaders were outraged and said party officers must be neutral in Democratic primaries.
- After infighting and party members calling for another vice chair election, Hogg left his DNC position in June.
By the numbers: Hogg has accused Democrats of being overly reliant on political consultants, but his group is spending most of its money on such companies, according to campaign finance reports.
- Over the first eight months of this year, Leaders We Deserve spent $4.9 million with about $2.5 million going to consultants and $455,000 on helping three candidates.
- The group spent $1.1 million on digital ads and $965,000 on acquiring lists of potential supporters to help grassroots fundraising along with a variety of communications and fundraising consultants.
- It also spent about $4,900 on ClassPass, the fitness class subscription service.
- The group had $1.6 million in the bank at the end of August.
— Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein in Activist David Hogg struggles in push for new generation of Dem leaders
No, it’s far more successful than the pillow company. While people enjoy poking fun at him, he understands the game. There’s plenty of profit to be made in the political arena. These guys extract money (donations) from the working and middle classes they pretend to care about, all while living high on the hog (pun intended). Typical champagne so_shall_lists.
The article lists about $7M in expenditures with $1.6M in the bank. Assuming that there was actually $20M available to spend, I’d like to know where the rest of the money went? Any answers Hogg boy?
The $20 mil…well, the group never actually had it. Hogg said in April his group would spend $20 million backing younger leaders and primary challengers to Democrats in safe congressional seats (he wanted to primary democrats, which really PO’d the DNC) … Hogg was counting on his DNC affiliation as co-vice chair to come up with the ‘contributions/donations’ ‘pledged’ to get the amount, but he had po’d the DNC so much that ‘contributions/donations’ he was trying to line up those that ‘pledged’ decided not to give the money and the DNC booted him in June and along with that the ‘contributions/donations’ possibility vanished. That’s all he was using the DNC for, access to the ‘membership’ to fund his grifting schemes. Its the same reason Everytown dumped him, he tried his grifting schemes on them too.
anyway … “…and $455,000 on helping three candidates.”
These were:
$300,000 to New York City mayoral marxist socialst candidate Zohran Mamdani.
$150,000 to House candidate Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old social media influencer and progressive activist who lost the Democratic special election primary by 39 percentage points July 15.
Irene Shin, who lost by a wide margin in a special Democratic primary in June to fill the House seat of the late Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., also received $5,000.
I’m sure Soros, or the like, will pony up at some point in time. He’s making a good salary being the hurt angry victim.