• CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Makes sense. If she runs for governor of California you might win (unlikely) and have to govern. If she runs for president she definitely won’t win and won’t have to govern.

    As grifts go, you can grift way more people running for president than governor, and her campaign was basically a racket (they spent how much money and don’t even know where it all went?).

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 days ago

      and don’t even know where it all went?

      I very vaguely remember somebody in her inner circle getting something like $75,000 for a few months of work. I wonder if they did anything at all.

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      I really misremembered. ~$75,000 for 15 weeks of “work”? It was 200 grand.

      Some media allies of Ms. Harris were also paid. Areva Martin, who hosts a talk show, was paid $200,000 as a media consultant, and she went on a battleground-state tour in October.

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      How Kamala Harris Burned Through $1.5 Billion in 15 Weeks

      One particular Harris payment has drawn attention in the aftermath of the election: the $1 million paid to Oprah Winfrey’s production firm, Harpo Productions. In an Instagram post, Ms. Winfrey said the company was paid to stage a live-streamed town hall in Detroit, providing the set, lights, cameras, microphones, crew, producers and even the chairs.

      “I did not take any personal fee,” Ms. Winfrey wrote. “However the people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story.” The $1 million actually undercounts the full cost of the event, which ran closer to $2.5 million, according to two people briefed on the matter.

      It’s such a fucking grift…

      In 2020, for instance, Mike Donilon, who was one of Mr. Biden’s top strategists, reported on his personal financial disclosure form with the White House that his consultancy had earned $4.35 million in 2020, far more than the roughly $543,000 disclosed to the Federal Election Commission in payments to his firm.

      Numerous firms could have netted big commissions from the Harris campaign. Four companies received at least $90 million in payments as of mid-October, including one firm whose cumulative receipts from the Harris campaign approached $300 million.