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An anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian.

The Club for Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of Congress who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.​


About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.

The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticised last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police.

Public records show the Club for Growth’s largest funders are the billionaire Richard Uihlein, the Republican co-founder of the Uline shipping supply company in Wisconsin, and Jeffrey Yass, the co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, an options trading group based in Philadelphia that also owns a sports betting company in Dublin
 
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Leo

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the question is will organizations like Club for Growth continue to fund them. it might be just a PR move, but a number of conservative organizations, businesses and individuals have said they are putting a hold on those contributions in light of what happened on Jan. 6.
 
luka

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Yeah it is the question. Depends what it is they want I guess, and how they think they can go about getting it,
 
Leo

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also, the American public and media have very short attention spans. those organizations might be banking on the fact that in 6-12 months, they can go back to doing whatever they want and no one will notice.
 
Leo

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essentially, any entity with vast money is full of shit, has no binding moral compass and nothing they say should be trusted.
 
Mr. Tea

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Leo said:
also, the American public and media have very short attention spans. those organizations might be banking on the fact that in 6-12 months, they can go back to doing whatever they want and no one will notice.
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Not just Americans. There was a big scandal a few years ago that exposed the UK as pretty much the world's biggest tax haven - or at least, it seemed like a big scandal, or the sort of story that might have been a scandal a generation ago. And then everyone shrugged their shoulders and that was that.
 
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Leo said:
so many of the far-right nuts at this and other rallies come from all over the country, makes you wonder how they afford the airfares and lodging. how does the proud boy president afford to be at seemingly every major rally? how do they even get the time off work?!
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lots of independent, small donor fundraising going on, apparently

Before the Capitol Riot, Calls for Cash and Talk of Revolution

Yet even in the heat of the event, Mr. Lee paused for some impromptu fund-raising. “If you couldn’t make the trip, give five to 10 bucks,” he told his viewers, seeking donations for the legal costs of two jailed “patriots,” a leader of the far-right Proud Boys and an ally who had clashed with the police during an armed incursion at Oregon’s statehouse.

On an online ride-sharing forum, Patriot Caravans for 45, more than 4,000 members coordinated travel from as far away as California and South Dakota. Some 2,000 people donated at least $181,700 to another site, Wild Protest, leaving messages urging ralliers to halt the certification of the vote. Oath Keepers, a self-identified militia whose members breached the Capitol, had solicited donations online to cover “gas, airfare, hotels, food and equipment.” Many others raised money through the crowdfunding site GoFundMe or, more often, its explicitly Christian counterpart, GiveSendGo.
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Wild Protest linked to three hotels with discounted rates and another site for coordinating travel plans. It also raised donations from thousands of individuals, according to archived versions of a web portal used to collect them. The website has since been taken down, and it is not clear what the money was used for.

“The time for words has passed, action alone will save our Republic,” a user donating $250 wrote, calling congressional certification of the vote “treasonous.” Another contributor gave $47 and posted: “Fight to win our country back using whatever means necessary.”
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Mr. Tea

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benjybars said:
I really like that someone donated precisely $47 to "win our country back by whatever means necessary"
Surely if they feel that strongly about it then they should be remortgaging their house or selling a kidney or something?
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Maybe they did, and that's all they could get for it?
 
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