According to a bombshell new report, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was unsurprisingly among a group of Republican candidates who are up for reelection this year who took campaign donations from a widely known racist.
FEC records show that notable Republican candidates such as Graham and Arizona Senator Martha McSally received contributions to their reelection campaigns from GOP megadonor Timothy Mellon, an heir to the massive Mellon family fortune, who penned a 2015 autobiography that was chock full of derogatory stereotypes and descriptions of Black Americans.
The Federal Election Commission records show a startling $40 million in total donations to three different GOP super PACs as well as an additional tens of thousands in contributions to various Republican candidates seeking reelection as well as their super PACs.
The records outline donations to the campaigns of Arizona Senator Martha McSally, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James, in addition to the congressional campaigns and PACs that are currently supporting GOP Representatives Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Elise Stefanik of New York — among various others.
Stay up-to-date with the latest news!
Subscribe and start recieving our daily emails.
The content contained in Mellon’s self-published autobiography makes these contributions to the notable names in Congress even more disgusting.
In his opus, titled The Intriguing Story of Tim Mellon, the 77-year-old railway shipping company founder and heir to a long-lived family fortune, wrote that African Americans were “even more belligerent” in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and referred to safety-net programs as “Slavery Redux.”
He also wrote that people who are on federal assistance were “slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.”
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on,” Mellon’s book reads. “The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
Frankly, this is sickening enough on its own. But you would think that even the stupidest of GOPers would realize that, in such a state of civil unrest on the heels of numerous murders of Black people, taking a campaign donation from a prominent racist isn’t a good idea.
Yet… Here we are.
November cannot get here fast enough.
You can read the full report here.
Featured image via Political Tribune gallery
Like what you see here? Join the discussion on Facebook over at Americans For Sanity!
