A deficit of $ 314,000 was reported in the first three months of 2022 on Friday, and previous contribution totals were revised downwards by more than $ 100,000, The Daily Beast was the first to report. Greene’s representative committee, Greene for Congress, is known as one of the top fundraisers in Parliament. However, it spent $ 1.38 million in the first quarter of 2022, but only received $ 1.06 million in donations. There were three major increases in outflows for the Georgian MP: higher fundraising costs. fees to Donald Trump’s attorney general on Jan. 6; and increased security spending. About three-quarters of the money raised was spent on fundraising costs, with spokesman Greene adding a direct mail campaign to an already expensive digital feature, spending an additional $ 400,000 on printing, postage and other related costs. The huge increase in personal security costs led her to pay a total of $ 140,000 in monthly installments to KaJor Group, a Knoxville-based company that also provided protection to Kenosha sniper Kyle Rittenhouse during his 2021 test. . This increase in protection spending comes after the FEC decided last year that elected officials could hire bodyguards using campaign funds in the wake of the Jan. 6 uprising in the US Capitol. Most Democrats took advantage of the new arrangement. Last year, spokesman Greene reported $ 12,000 in security costs, mostly for a new security system. The more than tenfold increase in its security costs in early 2022 coincided with the first anniversary of the January 6 attack. The Georgian MP downgraded the riots by Trump supporters, while she was also accused by fellow MPs of inciting violence with her rhetoric. He recently criticized media attention for the January 6 attacks, saying it “happened only once”. The Independent contacted Rep Greene’s office regarding the latest FEC deposit. A spokesman for The Daily Beast reported an increase in threats against Green, including the recent arrest of a New York man who made threatening calls to her Washington office but did not provide details about her security arrangements. Ms. Green has also hired former President Donald Trump’s legal adviser, John Eastman, to pay $ 10,000 to his company, the Constitutional Advisory Group. Mr. Eastman is at the center of the congressional inquiry into the events of January 6. He is said to have devised the plan to overturn the count of the Electoral College. A statement from Ms Greene’s campaign on The Daily Beast read: “Dr Eastman is one of the top constitutional lawyers in the country. When we need advice on important constitutional issues, we have occasionally sought his advice. “The specific issues on which we sought his advice are protected by the privilege of a lawyer-client, however.” Ms Green is facing a constitutional dispute over her re-election bid for allegedly aiding the insurgents who invaded the Capitol. The lawsuit was filed in March, a few weeks after the lawyer was paid to Mr Eastman.
