Florida venue cancels Marjorie Taylor Greene event after learning of its Jan. 6 focus
The event was originally touted as book-signing hosted by a local Republican Party.
The book is just there as a gift within a grift.
The candidate "writes" the book and makes it available for sale. But not even their fans buy it.
The books are ordered at full price despite that by PACs to be given away at stuff like this.
This funnels money from PACs directly into the candidates pocket.
A couple years ago it was a big story, because one of them was strategically doing it thru the specific stores around NYC that were sampled for best seller list. They ended up pretty high up on the list for a couple weeks. Media even interviewed workers at the store who were really confused. Books come in on a schedule a couple skids at a time, all individually packed and not at bulk prices. And not even stay a day until picked up by another truck and shipped off again. At some stores this was more volume than every other book that went through the store normally.
They were burning money like crazy, because it was money laundering. The entire point is to move as much money around as possible.
I wouldn't be surprised if one tried some bullshit with valuating the signature tho.
Have the PAC buy them, pay the candidate to sign them, and then give them out at events like this. That could double maybe even triple the money laundering, but I don't know if they have the balls to do it.
The candidate “writes” the book and makes it available for sale. But not even their fans buy it.
The US has a shockingly high rate of functional illiteracy, and I'm going to guess that her supporters are disproportionately affected by this. Which is to say that they probably couldn't read her book if they wanted to.
Long boring Anecdote time!
Every homeschooling family I know are super republican and are "religious".
Every single child of said families have less than a 6th grade reading level.
One family that got too extreme for my parents to continue being friends with them decided that their daughters book learning was done in fourth grade. After that it was basically home economics without any of the important Financials (because the man handles that, silly, women aren't smart enough!), just basically training a maid to cook and clean and also find a husband. Only a few of her NINE BROTHERS could read the books I was assigned in 5th grade. None of them could read my personal books, as I had a college reading level by 3rd grade, but I'm a super nerd so....
Well sure enough all the boys of that family grew up to be pieces of shit from the interactions I've had with them over the years, and the daughter hasn't been seen in nearly a decade. Ran away the moment she legally could, and I hope she's living her best life away from controlling religious freaks.
My in-laws are "homeschooling" their own children, which amounts to letting them do whatever they want Tuesday and Thursday, and sending them to the church van every m/w/f to be taught by Sunday school teachers. Who of course only talk about creationism. and none of the "graduates" have even heard of Charles Darwin. And also believe humans and T-Rex walked around with each other. Whose fossils were also put in the ground as a test...
I don't know if it's still there, but years ago I heard an NPR story about a bookstore in D.C. which existed solely to sell books back to the PACs. The only books available in the store were written by politicians.
I hate it when Americans assume everybody understands their abbreviations. What the fuck is a PAC? Or like when You write GOP when you mean conservatives. That doesn't help anybody.
I hate when people are so incapable and dumb that, despite having a world of information at their fingertips, they would rather complain about not knowing something about us politics, in the comment section of something about us politics, than just do a 10 second Internet search.
GOP is Grand Ole Party. It's the Republican party's second name.
PAC is political action committee. It's an organization that is not legally the candidate or their election slush fund to elect a person or people. Basically it's a way to spend money on a political thing that ignores all campaign finance rules.
Both terms are incredibly common in America. TV and radio will use both without offering an explanation.
although lemmy's /politics isn't only American politics you should be aware this sub was US politics only on The Other Place.
however, as it's not ELI5, I feel like it's reasonable to use common jargon when discussing a topic. I shouldn't need to explain what wattage is if this was discussing power stations, I shouldn't need to explain what FPS is if discussing video games.
Per search engine: PAC — Political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.
The cost to attend was $45 to $1,000 to meet Greene and "receive a signed copy of her book.”
These traitors never stop grifting, do they.
That's 100% on the venue. I mean let's be honest, if it's a Marjorie Taylor Greene event you should probably assume it's got some Jan 6/white supremacy focus until proven otherwise.
Florida venue seems more level headed than Florida man
Venue meth is hard to get, man meth on the other hand....
Should've replaced her with Micky Rourke.
Good move by the Florida venue.
Well there is a pleasant surprise from my home state.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The event was set to be hosted by the Republican Party of Osceola County at the Westgate Resorts in Kissimmee.
It was originally pitched to Westgate as a small book-signing event featuring Greene, without mention of Jan. 6.
The cost to attend was $45 to $1,000 to meet Greene and "receive a signed copy of her book.”
Greene has long supported former President Donald Trump's belief that the 2020 election was stolen from him, and she has downplayed the severity of the Jan. 6 attack — which left five people dead and about 140 police officers injured.
“Just another day in Florida where the local Republican Party in Osceola County is hosting an 'anniversary' event to mark January 6th and Marjorie Taylor Green is the 'special' guest,” Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani posted on X.
Osceola County Republican Party Chairman Mark Cross did not reply to a request seeking comment, so it is unclear whether the event has been rescheduled.
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How bad does she have to be if even Florida is telling her to eff off?
In other news, Florida venue is latest target of conservative terrorism.
One option for a venue left: Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Oh noez, cancel culture is targeting conservatives unfairly! Fucking shithead.
Get ready for her to screech about "muh free speech reeee" 🙄