Josh Shapiro: Law enforcement should look at Musk’s million dollar giveaway

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is calling on law enforcement to investigate Elon Musk for operating in his state in the hopes of securing the reelection of Donald Trump.

With the same hypocritical victim mentality most Democrat leaders have (that harkens back to the days when they led the counter culture from their parent's basements) Shapiro is discussed with the amount of money being pumped into the Republican campaign for president.

Josh Shapiro: Law enforcement should look at Musk’s million dollar giveaway

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said that law enforcement should look into a one million dollar giveaway Elon Musk is doing for Pennsylvanians who sign his super PAC’s petition.

“Look, Musk obviously has a right to be able to express his views. He's made it very, very clear that he supports Donald Trump,” Shapiro said. “Obviously, we have a difference of opinion. I don't deny him that right. But when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, I think it raises serious questions that folks may want to take a look at.”

pol itico

What has set Gov. Josh Shapiro off is a gimmick by Elon Musk to give away a $1 Million daily prize to a lucky Trump supporter.

Now Musk is doing this because he has gotten some flack that his supper pac is under preforming (just like many of Musk's ventures.)

Elon Musk Offers $1 Million Daily Prize for Signing His Petition
Billionaire’s America PAC says offer is open to registered voters in Pennsylvania and other battleground states

WSJ

To be clear I actually agree with Governor Josh Shapiro; it is disgusting how much money is spent on political campaigns. The problem is Governor Josh Shapiro, like most Democrat leaders, is a hypocrite. He should worry about cleaning his own house before chastising others.

Harris’ Biggest Campaign Fund Takes In Nearly Twice As Much As Trump’s Committees

The Harris Victory Fund—which raises money for both Harris’ campaign and Democratic groups—raised $633.2 million between July 1 and Sept. 30, according to a Federal Election Commission filing released Tuesday.

Trumps National Committee JFC, which raises money for Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, took in only $194.5 million during that same period, while the ex-president’s Trump 47 Committee, a different joint fundraising committee that collects funds from bigger donors, raised $145.2 million.

FEC filings through Aug. 21 show super PACs have spent approximately $167 million supporting Harris since the beginning of July, while PACs have spent approximately $55.2 million supporting Trump during that same period.

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Forbs

I assume there will be readers who will want to believe that Democrat funding is all small dollar grass roots donations. While the big bad Republicans are the only ones who go after the corrupt money. But that is just nave... don't be nave.

Zuckerberg’s election spending was ‘carefully orchestrated’ to influence 2020 vote: ex-FEC member

A former federal election official on Thursday called the $400 million-plus that Mark Zuckerberg spent to help finance local elections a “carefully orchestrated attempt” to influence the 2020 vote — and recommended that all states ban private funding of election offices.

Hans von Spakovsky, a former Federal Election Commission member, said the billionaire Facebook founder’s donations to a pair of nonprofits that doled out the cash to nearly 2,500 counties in 49 states “violated fundamental principles of equal treatment of voters since it may have led to unequal opportunities to vote in different areas of a state.”

NYP

My first impression is Shapiro's national DNC allure will be diminished greatly if Pennsylvania goes red. So much so he might lose support for 2028 run

a reply to: Dandandat3

I’m getting really sick and tired of the democrats double standards.

Zuckerborg spent $400,000,000 in 2020
Elon will be lucky get to $20,000,000 before the election.

Meanwhile, Act Blue is getting caught taking illicit fraudulent donations from anonymous donors using prepaid gift cards to the tune of millions.

They know they are losing bigly so by any means necessary right.

Just more pot/kettle BS. Whatever.

Harris passes $1bn in fundraising since entering the race in July

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