GOP Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas appears to have the same problem as Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Muslim. The neoconservative congressmen has been self-dealing by permitting his campaign to pay a consultancy that employs his wife.
Crenshaw is an amateur compared to Omar, who funneled millions into her husband’s political consultancy.
But records the Daily Caller obtained from the Federal Election Commission show that Crenshaw did indeed pull an Omar and funnel money to a company that employs his spouse.
350 Big Ones
Crenshaw has paid the firm Pink Cilantro, “a boutique branding agency based in Houston, Texas,” the Caller reported, since 2020, although the outfit’s website is offline because the agency is “rebranding” itself.
Records show $350,000 in payments to the company, which employs Crenshaw’s wife. But she doesn’t do campaign work.
“Pink Cilantro is listed in Crenshaw’s financial disclosure report as ‘Spouse salary,’” the Caller continued:
The Caller pressed [owner Basya] Benshushan about how much Tara Crenshaw has been paid by Pink Cilantro, as it is not applicable in Crenshaw’s financial disclosure report. Benshushan said he checked with her accountant and found that their agency has paid Tara Crenshaw more than $60,000.
“Tara works for the digital marketing firm Pink Cilantro, which has been compensated by the campaign for services rendered in full compliance with all applicable rules,” a Crenshaw spokesperson told the Caller.
Benshushan explained that Tara Crenshaw did not have an actual salary but was paid on commission. Benshushan also told the Caller that Pink Cilantro only has 12 employees.
Tara Crenshaw is a 1099 employee, meaning she is an independent contractor.
Another of Pink Cilantro’s customers, the Caller reported, is GOP renegade Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a hate-Trump turncoat. His campaign has dumped $500,000 into the consultancy since 2021.
Omar’s Millions
Of the two, Omar’s is the far bigger scandal, and not just because she paid husband Tim Mynett’s consultancy millions for its “work” before her campaign finally cut him off, likely because someone might land in legal hot water.
Omar carried on an adulterous affair with Mynett while he was married to his wife, who fingered Omar as a home-wrecker in divorce papers. After denying the affair, the couple was caught shacked up in Washington, D.C., after which they married.
Omar and Crenshaw, of course, aren’t the only House members who make campaigns a family affair.
Leftist Representative Maxine Waters’ campaign has paid her daughter more than $1 million, Fox News disclosed in February, and has continued to pay her at least through June.
The campaign “shelled out another $16,500 to her daughter in June, adding to the more than $1.2 million the congresswoman has paid her daughter over the past nearly two decades,” Fox reported:
Karen Waters, who has been organizing slate-mailing operations to bolster her mother’s re-election since 2003, and her company, Progressive Connections, have received more than $1.2 million from Waters’ campaign.…
In 2004, the Los Angeles Times revealed that the Waters campaign had shelled out over $1 million to other family members over the previous eight years. Waters defended the practice at the time, telling the paper, “They do their business, and I do mine.”
In fiscal 2021, the New York Post reported, Waters’ campaign paid the daughter $81,650.
Waters, a hard-left crackpot who threatened to “socialize” the oil industry in 2008, promised riots if the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin, falsely accused of “murdering” drug addict and career criminal George Floyd, did not return a guilty verdict.
