The hate-Trump Lincoln Project paid a former torpedo for President Obama to get out the black vote in Pennsylvania. The money helped flip the state and win the election for Joe Biden.
Little did the recipients of nearly $1 million from the disgraced blacklisting squad know their benefactor funneled the majority of its donations to companies controlled by its founders. Little did they know a project founder, homosexual Twitter stalker John Weaver, groomed two minors and solicited at least 21 men. Little did they know that founders knew about Weaver, did nothing to stop him, then lied about it.
CNBC disclosed the partnership between so-called Republicans and conservatives, as Lincoln Project principals bill themselves, and leftist operatives.
$750,000 Spent
“The anti-Trump Lincoln Project paid a consulting firm run by former Obama deputy press secretary Bill Burton to conduct a Black voter outreach program in Pennsylvania, which turned out to be the decisive state in the 2020 election,” CNBC reported:
The super PAC paid $1.5 million to the firm, BG Causes LLC, during the 2020 election cycle, according to data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. Federal Election Commission filings show that the two $750,000 checks sent to BG Causes in October were intended for “voter outreach services.”
BG Causes runs the federal political activities of Bryson Gillette, the consulting firm Burton founded last year, the former Obama spokesman told CNBC. He also provided details on the Black voter outreach effort that was at least partially funded by the Lincoln Project.
Project founders claim their mission was to get conservatives and Republicans, along with independents in swing states, as CNBC observed, to join the Never Trump cause
Again, Pennsylvania was crucial to that effort, and, of course, to Trump. Its 20 electoral votes put Biden over the top.
That raises an obvious question: How did a group, ostensibly founded to redirect the GOP, get involved with a legman for Obama?
Answer: It was the usual inside-the-beltway, back-slapping business arrangement. Burton knew Steve Schmidt, the blacklisting project founder who quit last week. Schmidt said Weaver’s homosexual predations unearthed bad memories of the homosexual camp counselor who molested Schmidt as a young boy.
In other words, Schmidt claimed #MeToo status.
“Burton has past ties to Schmidt as the two advised former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz when he was considering an independent run for president,” CNBC reported.
How the Money Was Used
In other words, Deep State Democrats and Republicans shared a common interest: keeping the Deep State in power by defeating Trump, regardless of who took his place.
Schultz never ran, which left the two to concentrate on getting out the black vote. In this case, they ran “a program that encouraged Black voters to head to the polls in the Keystone State,” Burton told CNBC:
Burton said his group, along with others that worked on the project, created TV and digital ads in support of this effort. President Joe Biden went on to win Pennsylvania.
The program, Burton says, included a focus on creating and pushing out ads on the website, TheElectionisNow.com.
Federal Election Commission records reveal an outfit called Black Vote PA, a super PAC “with a mailing address in Arizona,” CNBC reported. Agency “records also show that BG Causes took the two $750,000 payments from the Lincoln Project and contributed it to the Black Vote PA super PAC as an in-kind donation.”
The super PAC website explains how to vote by mail, a method that raised serious questions about fraudulent voting and inspired lawsuits across the country, including in Pennsylvania. In the week after the election, a postal worker in Erie claimed his boss ordered underlings to backdate late ballots.
That aside, the super PAC spent millions on ads, CNBC reported:
Data from the ad tracking firm Ad Impact shows that starting in October, Black Vote PA took to radio and TV airwaves in Pennsylvania. The group spent over $150,000 on radio and TV ads targeting voters in that state, Ad Impact’s data says. The PAC finished spending well over $2 million in the final months of 2020, FEC records show.
The Election is Now took ads paid for by Black Vote PA and put them on its Facebook page, according to data from the social media giant’s ad archive.
The archive says that The Election is Now spent over $130,000 on Facebook ads. Some of the ads were taken down because they apparently violated Facebook’s policies, according to the ad archive.
The ads included one from Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Andrew McCutchen, and another that bashed Trump for referring to “my African-Americans.”
CNBC’s report does not suggest the Lincoln Project broke campaign-finance laws. But it does prove the project was uninterested in anything but wrecking GOP prospects at the polls.
The project spent all its advertising money to defeat Republicans.
