Early returns, but Joshua Collins at 1.12% in a 19 way field.A mod of the /r/Pete_Buttigieg subreddit is also running for the same seat, getting 2.54%https://t.co/ZBxP4I2a49 pic.twitter.com/dlo4QVQtPz— Municipal and State Reformer (@LocalReformer) August 5, 2020
A grift involves tricking credulous people out of money. What you're describing -- a cluttered issues page, a scatterbrained campaign style -- is certainly poor execution of a political campaign, but it doesn't really suggest he was grifting. Did he just take all (or most) of the money he raised and pocket it? Was he spending lavishly on personal "campaign expenses"? Was he insincere about what he was saying, or was he just a bad candidate?
Either way we need to vet candidates better, but there's a big difference between someone who can't build a winning campaign from the ground up and someone who's only in it for the cash.
all i can say is there's poorly run campaigns and there's raising nearly 300 G's and then getting less than a thousand votes and losing to a motherfucker running on the fucking "Congress Sucks Party," what are you gonna call that other than a grift ?
People giving someone who's incompetent too much money? If my friend who's bad with money has an idea for a business, and I give him a bunch of money for it, and it blows up in his face, that doesn't necessarily mean he was swindling me. Maybe he just has no idea what he's doing and I made a bad choice to give him money.
A grift involves tricking credulous people out of money. What you're describing -- a cluttered issues page, a scatterbrained campaign style -- is certainly poor execution of a political campaign, but it doesn't really suggest he was grifting. Did he just take all (or most) of the money he raised and pocket it? Was he spending lavishly on personal "campaign expenses"? Was he insincere about what he was saying, or was he just a bad candidate?
Either way we need to vet candidates better, but there's a big difference between someone who can't build a winning campaign from the ground up and someone who's only in it for the cash.
all i can say is there's poorly run campaigns and there's raising nearly 300 G's and then getting less than a thousand votes and losing to a motherfucker running on the fucking "Congress Sucks Party," what are you gonna call that other than a grift ?
People giving someone who's incompetent too much money? If my friend who's bad with money has an idea for a business, and I give him a bunch of money for it, and it blows up in his face, that doesn't necessarily mean he was swindling me. Maybe he just has no idea what he's doing and I made a bad choice to give him money.
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Here's a campaign interview he did over a year ago. 100K split four ways and spread out over a year does not scream largess.
He ran a trash campaign, no doubt, but suggesting that all he was ever doing was bilking people out of money is a stretch.