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SCOOP: Madison Cawthorns campaign ended in a financial collapse, covering costs with donor money it wasnt allowed to touch unless he won the primary. According to a campaign source, he owes donors hundreds of thousands, but hes broke. Me @thedailybeast
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Cawthorn Campaign Illegally Spent Funds It Wasnt Supposed to Touch
Madison Cawthorns campaign wasnt supposed to touch the money it had for the general election. Guess what the campaign did.
7:26 PM · Jul 22, 2022
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SCOOP: Madison Cawthorns campaign ended in a financial collapse, covering costs with donor money it wasnt allowed to touch unless he won the primary. According to a campaign source, he owes donors hundreds of thousands, but hes broke. Me @thedailybeast
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Cawthorn Campaign Illegally Spent Funds It Wasnt Supposed to Touch
Madison Cawthorns campaign wasnt supposed to touch the money it had for the general election. Guess what the campaign did.
7:26 PM · Jul 22, 2022
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With two weeks to go until a primary election he was fated to lose, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) was already underwater. His campaign held more than twice as much debt as it had cash on hand, the donor well was dry, and he and his staff were months into a madcap spending streak that one campaign source called baffling.
And now, after indeed losing that primary, theres no money to pay the piper.
Specifically, theres no money to repay the supporters who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in advance to Cawthorns election efforts beyond the primaryto the general election he now wont be competing in.
Cawthorn is required by law to refund those donations. Instead, according to a campaign source, the campaign already spent the money.
The public doesnt know any of this yet, however, because the Cawthorn campaign is now a week late in submitting the quarterly Federal Election Commission report that would disclose the collapse. That delay will already trigger an automatic fine.
The breach of fiduciary obligations follows a string of personal and professional embarrassments that hounded the one-term congressman across the weeks and months leading up to his primary defeataccusations of insider trading, multiple alleged ethics violations, unforced public gaffes, and photo and video leaks designed to humiliate him.
But the campaigns financial washout is more than another embarrassment; its against the law.
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Cawthorn Campaign Illegally Spent Funds It Wasn't Supposed to Touch (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2022
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Maeve
(42,288 posts)1. Shocked. Shocked, I tells ya!
RockRaven
(14,990 posts)2. Other than the automatic fine, the FEC won't do anything. It is still controlled by Repukes.
Even though one of the Repukes is continuing on past their expired term (as is the fashion for the FEC) because Biden hasn't named a replacement yet. This should be a high priority! Replacing that seat would allow the FEC to function properly. As it stands now, the Repukes block every investigation and action against Repukes in a purely partisan manner.