Russell Pearce’s Pals Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan Pony Up a Measly $424 to Save Russ
Read it all here.
Did they leave out a zero somewhere?
I keep rubbing my eyes and scratching my noggin over this latest campaign finance report filed yesterday by the Committee to Oppose Recall of Russell Pearce, which is run by the Virginia-based Team America PAC, co-chaired by anti-immigration stalwarts Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan.
Despite supposedly sending out e-mail fundraising blasts since June of this year on behalf of embattled state Senate President Russell Pearce, the committee reports garnering a paltry $424, all of which was donated to Pearce’s campaign organization Patriots for Pearce.
That’s pretty pathetic considering that the committee claims it’s dedicated to “securing our nation’s border,” which, in nativist parlance, means , “Round up them Mess-cans and ship ‘em out,” a raison d’etre the PAC shares with Pearce.
Pearce and former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo have long been allies. At a recent rally for Pearce at a Mesa ballpark (a rally that drew a mere 200 to 300 souls), Tancredo gave a rousing, stump-thumping speech to the pro-Pearce faithful.
“I’d come across the gates of hell for you, buddy,” Tancredo assured his partner in Hispanic-hatin’.
And yet, $424 doesn’t sound like enough to ford the river Styx, unless you’re doing it in a canoe made of matchsticks.
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I love that line.
Team America PAC is hardly lacking in cash. Its October filing with the Federal Election Commission showed the PAC’s 2011 receipts to date have totaled $160,974.
Most of its disbursements for the month of September were to meet its payroll, including Buchanan’s compensation. In August, Tancredo was paid a consulting fee of $2,500.
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Bonus: a clip from Team America: World Police at the end of the article.