Guess who raised campaign funds during government shutdown? Sean Duffy!

In Ken Vogel’s new book “Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp – on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics“ about money in American politics, there’s an interesting report that Congressman Sean Duffy attended a Washington confab sponsored by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group during last year’s government shutdown (emphasis added).

During the government shutdown, Vogel writes, “the very folks who could form the Speaker’s own cash calvary were secretly convening a mile west of the White House at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. Some of the richest Republican businessmen and most influential big-money operatives were set to gather over the next couple of days with the pols they hoped would lead the revival of the GOP’s Chamber of Commerce Centrist wing.”

The meeting was convened by Karl Rove’s organization Crossroads, which titled the agenda “The Republican Future”, with the purpose of reclaiming control of the GOP from its more extreme Tea Party wing.

Vogel notes that he didn’t expect many prominent politicians to attend (House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both opted not to show up), figuring “it would look pretty bad for any Republican to be caught schmoozing big donors at the very moment that the party’s congressional contingent was being blamed for an unpopular stalemate causing real pain for regular Americans.”

And then, Vogel writes, Gardner showed up along with Congressman Sean Duffy, R-Wisconsin.

Ken Vogel’s report is yet another example of just how out of touch “Struggling” Sean Duffy is with the citizens he represents.

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