Az, Michigan, and Florida among the state pub parties going broke Multiple state Republican parties are going broke In Michigan, the state Republican Party had $93,000 in its bank accounts as of July 2023. A recent draft report shared by insiders with MLive in early December said that the party was on "the brink of bankruptcy." ... The state Republican Party in Minnesota is also struggling financially, with a filing revealing that it recently had only $53.81 in the bank and was more than $335,000 in debt, according to a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing. A 2023 report by Politico revealed that the Colorado GOP was also struggling and facing eviction from its office because it could not pay rent, Deputy Chief of Staff Roger Hudson said. The party denied the story and accused Hudson of spreading lies, though The Colorado Sun reported that last spring the state party didn't pay a single employee for the first time in 20 years. In Massachusetts, Politico reported that the state GOP has racked up more than $400,000 in debts to vendors and had less than $70,000 in the bank. The Florida state GOP is the latest to join this list of near-broke Republican parties, with sources saying it "is essentially broke," Michael Barfield, lead investigator and public access director at the Florida Center for Government Accountability, said on X, formerly Twitter. Barfield wrote that the Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler "raised no big money for the party.
Most everything about the GOP is broke these days. It reminds me of its ideological predecessor, the Dixiecrats. Still, it has managed to rig voting access in a number of crucial states, so its power has been diluted as much as it otherwise would have been.
First the NRA and now GOP state parties? Truly T&Ps. One might conclude the GOP can’t even run a campaign much less the world’s largest economy. Is it a wonder GDP and employment suffers during their administrations?
Michigan pub party in civil war. One group says maga is out, another says she is still in charge. Election being scheduled....this should be interesting Michigan GOP civil war escalates
I don’t give money to political parties and you shouldn’t either. Our system is screwed up and I won’t be apart if it much like NIL.
I hate to see a good pub party fail. Maybe they can improve their cocktail program and up their craft beer regimen.
I had an acquaintance who raised money for one of the parties who told me the same thing. She said party officials spent the money like their hair was on fire on expensive perks, meetings at ski resorts, Hawaii and other locales far from the unwashed masses.
I’d encourage folks to not give money to national politicians you don’t know. I’d prefer it to be illegal to contribute to candidates you can’t physically vote for too. I’ve seen enough of Local, State, and national politics to know you’re making a deal with the devil in most cases and on both sides of the aisle.
