Marjorie Taylor Greene Spent Donor Money On A Fence For Her House

According to campaign finance reports, Marjorie Taylor Greene spent $65,000 in donor money on a new fence for "security" on her home in Georgia. Dan Crenshaw spent more than $20,000 on promotional eye patches to sell to his fans. All of these expenses, somehow, are completely legal, and that's actually the biggest problem with this story. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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Recently, of course we got the campaign finance disclosures from the first quarter of this year. And it turns out that Marjorie Taylor Green spent $65,000 worth of donor money that she received to put a new security fence, she calls it around her residence in Georgia, a $65,000 fence on a home in an area where the median household income is $54,000. So her fence around her house that she says is totally for security reasons, costs more than most households in her district make in a year. Dan Crenshaw spent $20,000 in donor money buying promotional eye patches that they sell on his campaign website for $35 a piece. So Green is spending tens of thousand dollars, uh, tens of thousands of dollars on a new fence for her home. Crenshaw spending tens of thousands of dollars for eye patches that they then resell to his supporters. And all of it is perfectly legal.

I'm not telling you these stories to say or imply in any way that either of these people broke the law. I'm telling you these stories to tell you they didn't break the law to point out how stupid our campaign finance laws are. Now, to a degree, I can understand the Crenshaw thing, right? Because you're selling the patches as a fundraising thing, right? You know, you're allowed to sell t-shirts and mugs and whatever. The eye patch obviously is his thing. So he's doing it. People are buying it, I get it. But you shouldn't also be allowed to spend campaign money to buy things that you then sell to raise campaign money. Um, basically you're just charging people an astronomical markup for a really crappy product that they really can't even use. Like it's just almost a, a, a costume. But the green fence thing, like I, I definitely draw a line there like that's not, that should not be allowed. But the Federal Elections Commission does allow, uh, candidates and members of Congress and the Senate to spend their campaign money on security for themselves. She has said that this $65,000 fence is totally for security. So the F E C's like, oh cool, that's totally legal then you have a nice day. Marjorie Campaign finance in the United States is an absolute complete joke. Like, this is ridiculous. This is getting stupid. Pretty soon we're gonna get to the point, oh wait, I'm sorry. We're

Already at the point because last year Marjorie Taylor Green bought a frigging car with campaign money and said, well, I gotta get to events and the F C's like, Hey, you're right. That's totally legit. So they can even buy cars with their campaign money. They can do whatever the hell they want. Eventually we're gonna hit the point where they're like, well, I've gotta have a house so I should be able to use my campaign funds to, to buy a house and the f e c, that's totally the most spineless organization in the country is gonna be like that. That's a good point. I never thought of that. You can use campaign money to buy a house. Yes, absolutely. That's where we're headed. I promise you. We are headed there and we are probably headed there a lot faster than most people think.