Several state Republican parties are nearly broke or destroyed by infighting as the November election cycle begins.
  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    1061·
    11 months ago

    Turns out the “fuck everyone who isn’t me” party is not so great on cooperation.

  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
    841·
    11 months ago

    In Massachusetts, Politico reported that the state GOP has racked up more than $400,000 in debts to vendors and had less than $70,000 in the bank.

    I see a pattern.

    In only a matter of a few months, the party is essentially non-functional and, worse yet, the party and others associated with the party are now facing potential civil and criminal consequences for breaking laws.

    I really see a pattern!

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
      282·
      11 months ago

      This is exactly what they’re excellent at. Spending other people’s money with no real plan to recoup it, hoping the next big sucker will come along and bail them out to a golden parachute before the floor falls out.

      But now the floor is falling and someone has to hold the bag. It’s probably not going to be any billionaires.

      • detalferous@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        No plan to recoup it? The trump tax cuts paid for their donations multiple times over. Pure graft.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      8·
      11 months ago

      It would be pretty easy for anyone to do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party. Anyone can register as a member and according to Wikipedia they have about 700,000 actual members. Billionaires and the Mitt Romney/Mike Pence/Ted Cruz wing of the GOP could swoop in and leave the name ‘Republican’ to the MAGoos.

    • cogman@lemmy.world
      59·
      11 months ago

      Seriously, it’s because right-wing grifters (especially Trump) have been sucking up all the cash.

      It used to be (in the Republican party) that after the elections Republican candidates would contribute their campaign funds back to the party. Trump put an end to that which has cash starved the local elections.

      • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
        1·
        11 months ago

        It used to be (in the Republican party) that after the elections Republican candidates would contribute their campaign funds back to the party

        Something something, from each according to their ability to each according to their need? Redistribution of resources and all that…

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    36·
    11 months ago

    In Arizona and Michigan, two states where the GOP presidential candidate will likely have to win a majority of suburban voters to get back in the White House, the state Republican parties are running critically short on money. In Arizona, the state GOP has just $14,800 left in the bank at the end of August, as reported by the Arizona Mirror.

    $14,800 is an insanely low amount of money.

    You can’t win a contested small-time county election with $15k.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      24·
      11 months ago

      In Minnesota the republican party had $8000 in cash on hand and is $76,000 in debt the last I read in the local news. And that has been the general situation for the past year. There has been talk of bankruptcy.

  • Hegar@kbin.social
    371·
    11 months ago

    This feels like well deserved schadenfreude, but probably just means that a wider range of scum can buy their votes cheap.

  • withnail@infosec.pub
    21·
    11 months ago

    Trump is hogging all the donations and isn’t sharing the piggy bank with the state party peons. Oh no!

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    11 months ago

    Seems the “I got mine” ideology would work better if they spread it around a bit instead of funneling it all to that fatass orange-utan they worship. He’s bankrupting their entire party and I couldn’t be happier!