The Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert must really need the job because she’s already paying herself a salary from campaign donations equivalent to a $63,500 year salary.
The news was broken by The Colorado Sun, which reports Trisha Calvarese has been paying herself since winning the party primary back in June.
The Sun confronted Calvarese about the controversial, but not illegal practice of pocketing campaign funds instead of using the money to win an election.
She boasted about pinching donations for herself and said she is “proud to be earning an honest, middle-class wage on this campaign.”
“Congress is full of the ultrawealthy because it’s almost impossible for normal people to run for office,” she said. “It’s part of the reason why Congress is so broken. … Like most Coloradans, I know what it feels like to actually worry about medical bills and the rising cost of gas and groceries.”
She makes it sound like Boebert came from generational wealth, which she did not.
We also take issue with her perception that people who earn lots of money and become wealthy from their hard work are somehow abnormal.
And those other Coloradans who worry about medical bills and the rising costs of gas and groceries — thanks to Democrat politicians like Trisha — don’t resort to pilfering donations from a campaign they can’t possibly win to pay their bills.
The Sun reports “Calvarese has parlayed Boebert’s national unpopularity among Democrats into a fundraising juggernaut” raising $3.2 million.
To be fair, she’s not the only congressional candidate paying themselves a salary, just the greediest and most belligerent about the practice that we’ve seen this election cycle.