Financial Non-Disclosures

We're waiting for transparency ... Fake electors are waiting for Mayes ... And Andrei is waiting for Brie Larson.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake got paid $15,000 to speak to a racist extremist organization, independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema once had a side hustle interning for a summer at a winery in Napa and Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego invested in a “woke” bank owned by a friend that’s now under federal investigation. 

We know these things because of federal financial disclosure statements. 

Financial disclosure statements tell you who is paying your politicians besides you. Unlike campaign finance reports, which tell you about a candidate’s campaign,  personal financial disclosure statements tell you about the official or candidate themselves — what kinds of investments, debts, businesses or property they own.

The deadline for Arizona officials to file financial disclosure statements with the Secretary of State’s office was January 31. Under past administrations, those files were available on February 1. 

But it’s March 7,¹ and we still can’t tell you anything about who bought junkets for your politicians in 2023, who might be funding their side hustles, what companies they own, what nonprofits they’re involved with, who they owe money to, or even basic things like what they do for a living.

Our art intern, ChatGPT, tells us this image captures the theme of political corruption with serious undertones, and that the flying child figure is not symbolic but rather an artifact of the AI image generation process.