Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s joint fundraising tour made about $60K and lost over $300K

Since GOP Reps Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked off their joint fundraising tour, they’ve reported a combined loss of $342,000 and raised just $59,345.54, The Daily Beast reports.

“That sort of meager haul would be fine for a dinner or one-time event, but Gaetz and Greene have repeatedly held high-profile events and spent a whopping $287,036.19 to hold them—meaning they’re in the hole by more than $225,000,” the Beast’s Roger Sollenberger writes.

From The Daily Beast:

The Logan Circle Group, which the campaign hired in early April, made off with more than a million dollars in the second quarter of 2021. While the majority of that money came from Gaetz—$825,000 over the course of one month—the firm nudged past the million-dollar mark with the $250,000 it received from Put America First. Those payments, nearly 90 percent of the committee’s total budget, were for “event production and management,” according to FEC filings.

A Gaetz campaign spokesperson told The Daily Beast that all donations raised on the tour had gone to Put America First. Asked again if that was correct, the spokesperson said it was. Upon double-checking with the campaign’s finance team, the spokesperson would only say that, “Our filings speak for themselves.”

Speaking to The Daily Beast, a Gaetz spokesperson defended the Florida congressman’s fundraising performance.

“Despite an endless stream of lies from the media, Congressman Gaetz continues to be among the most prodigious fundraisers in Congress and is the only Republican who doesn’t accept donations from federal lobbyists or PACs,” the spokesperson said. “He thanks his tens of thousands of donors and promises to always fight for them.”

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