Do campaign finance laws apply to this man? Notorious progressive globalist billionaire George Soros has taken his oversized influence on US elections to a bold new phase, putting candidates he favors on paid retainer before they officially seek office.
“New York congressional candidate Laura Gillen, a town supervisor in the Long Island town of Hempstead, drew a $40,000 ‘fellow’ salary with the group Our American Future Foundation (OAFF) in 2023, according to her financial disclosures,” Fox News reports. “The group and a sister nonprofit, Our American Future Action, help pay expenses for individuals – overwhelmingly Democrats – who plan to run for office in the future.”
Compensating Congressional Hopefuls
There’s nothing clever about the retainer; it’s a fairly obvious attempt to skirt campaign finance regulations. Our American Future Foundation is a Soros operation through and through.
“According to the Open Society Foundations, the umbrella of groups founded by Soros, its Open Society Action Fund has donated more than $18 million to Our American Future Action ‘to support non-partisan policy advocacy and civic engagement,’” Fox relates.
Our American Future Foundation was incorporated by well-connected blue lawyer Marc Elias, who has worked closely with Hillary Clinton, President Joe Biden, and the Democratic National Committee. In January, the Washington Examiner reported that OAFF had acquired the New Politics Leadership Academy, “a charity that trains prospective candidates,” from its founding organization. The so-called academy had proven controversial for some time.
“Tax experts have questioned whether New Politics Leadership Academy may have violated its charity status by compensating congressional hopefuls, with the Federal Election Commission receiving at least one formal complaint against a candidate in 2020 over the individual being ‘paid to run for Congress by Democratic groups,’ including New Politics Leadership Academy,” the Examiner notes. The Federal Election Commission dismissed the complaint.
Thus we have Laura Gillen in 2024.
It’s no secret that she is a candidate supported by the Soros political money machine. Gillen’s campaign has received contributions from multiple Soros family members. Which is fair enough, provided the contributions remain within the legal threshold. But how does that occur when Gillen has also been given $40K in advance of her running from an Open Society Foundations front group under the ludicrously implausible guise of “non-partisan” civic aid?
“According to an OAFF trademark application last year, its mission is as follows: ‘Promoting public awareness of climate change, reproductive freedom, and other progressive issues,” the Examiner details.
Gee, what a surprise. Laura Gillen just so happens to support all these same things.
Last September, Gillen wrote in an X post that “I’m running for Congress because together we can build a better future for the next generation – by lowering the cost of living, protecting reproductive rights, making sure people feel safe in their schools and community, and tackling climate change.”
In what world is that $40,000 stipend she received from Team Soros via OAFF not a political contribution?
Plenty of Ways to Get That Soros Cash
This is just another of the countless avenues employed by Soros to allow him to use his vast wealth to wage multi-dimensional political warfare in individual elections. From controlling media outlets to funneling tens of millions to progressive candidates for House and Senate races as well as local district attorney and sheriff’s elections around the country via a network of PACs and other non-direct measures, Soros appears completely unrestrained by any serious legal financial limitations.
Gillen is a textbook example of how this spider web is woven.
“Gillen recently benefited from one of the groups financed by the left-wing billionaire,” Fox News writes. “On Aug. 2, Soros’ Democracy PAC sent $500,000 to the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, which weeks later spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on independent expenditures backing her candidacy in the form of digital production, ad buys, and other items.”
A built-in network of donations on tap for you when you run, and a comfortable financial allowance provided in between races should you lose. It’s certainly a brazen new take on the long-familiar accusation that a politician is “owned” by outside interests. Do the American people understand in the slightest just how much George Soros is corrupting the entire electoral process in this nation?