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House (Of Representatives) Poor

Ilhan Omar has been paying her husband’s firm $2.7 million in campaign donations.

Under most of your community property laws, that means she’s been paying herself a whole lot of money.

And yet while prospering mightily from Omar’s campaign (they grossed $4 million in the 2020 cycle, a nearly 25-fold increase on the firm’s 2018 billings), they received Covid payroll stimulus money:

Public records show that E Street Group, co-owned by Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, received nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans. …

Public records show that E Street Group, co-owned by Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, received nearly $135,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans.

Federal Election Commission filings also show that the firm received payments for other campaigns, including $175,000 from the committee of Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and nearly $130,000 from the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

When Democrats say “never waste a crisis”…

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10 responses to “House (Of Representatives) Poor”

  1. shakingmyhead Avatar
    shakingmyhead

    Does she even live here anymore? Did she just “rent” someone’s spare room to have an address here in MN?

  2. Maximum Overlord Avatar
    Maximum Overlord

    Kind of interesting, but it doesn’t matter, does it? Omar could be seen running out of a bank in her district, carrying a bulging sack of cash and a smoking pistol, and she would not be detained & local news would cover by explaining it as part of a “far right disinformation campaign.”
    Leftists don’t want to know the truth about the people they lionize because it would make them uncomfortable. On the other hand, it is comforting to put people that you do not like into a “basket of deplorebles.”

  3. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    I don’t fault Mynett for taking advantage of it, but the notion that electioneering companies need paycheck protection is a huge unforced fumble on the Democrats’ part.

    Now is Omar listing these things as family income? Isn’t that a disclosure that’s required in Congress?

  4. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    smh
    she has a condo near the Guthrie with a beautiful view of the river — there was loving coverage of it in one of the DFL House Organs (MN Monthly, or Strib, etc) about a year ago with Architectural Digest quality photos.
    I haven’t seen pictures of whatever circumstances her other husbands are living in.

  5. Joe Doakes Avatar
    Joe Doakes

    A lousy $2 million? She needs professional help in the money-laundering department.

    Call Hunter for tips on turning Tim into an international bag-man. Or give Hillary some love – that Haiti gig worked out well for her.

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Joe: :^). My take is that it’s pretty impressive that consulting costs took that much in a fairly non-competitive race. Her spending is not that high total–average per district is about 16 million bucks–but I bet that the average portion dedicated to consulting is not 2/3 of the total. It would be very interesting to see how that works out. Like you say, if it’s totally out of the normal range, that’s pretty much money laundering.

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  8. FRESCHFISCH Avatar
    FRESCHFISCH

    I guess you’d call the “The E Street Shuffle”.

  9. AllenS Avatar
    AllenS

    That really isn’t a lot of money, not according to the Bidens.

  10. John Kraephammer Avatar
    John Kraephammer

    It’s right to understand that a great many business proprietors who didn’t obviously need money went down to the bank in May to check out their eligibility for COVID loans, and their rationale was no doubt “we need to cover ourselves, we just don’t know what is going to happen”.  If you’re Tim Mynett and you do this, you’re a douchebag and an absolute hypocrite.  Him and his partner have a very lean operation.  They rent WeWork space and have a staff of youngling do gooders who barely make adult money in DC. They operate the credit card donation gateway for Omar and a few others, they get the money before any of the campaigns do, they turn it over less their cut, they are never in danger of not having an invoice paid. Them taking COVID money would absolutely have to be in violation of any “from each, to each” principle you’d assume these guys would have to properly hold as lefties.

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