Mini Racker
@MiniRacker
Politics reporter @TheDailyBeast. Previously: @TIME, @NationalJournal, @LATimes, @Stanford. Philly-raised. Nocturnal creature.
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http://miniracker.com 07-04-2016 09:21:21
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Scoop w/ Reese Gorman on how the Kristi Noem dog incident has gone down in Trumpworld:
- Worries about ads being cut over Noem shooting her dog
- VP chances cooked
- Cabinet position, also cooked
- Concerns over ‘bad judgment’ and being a ‘gaffe machine’
thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-ki…
SCOOP: As Ronna McDaniel collected six-figure severance from the RNC, her successor claimed an apparently larger salary paycheck—he had also reportedly argued *against* cutting the next chair's salary just before he took her place. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/inside-ronna-m…
NEW: The Trump-RNC fundraising was worse than it looked last month—but a new ruling from the FEC’s Republicans about how legal accounts can be used may have bailed them out just in time. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/republicans-ju…
Following my reporting w/Mini Racker about Ted Cruz's podcast deal last week, Campaign Legal Center has just filed a new complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging that Cruz may have violated the ban on accepting 'honoraria,' or speaking fees campaignlegal.org/update/will-se…
NEW: Uber-wealthy GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick is running again in 2024, but he's just now getting around to refunding his 2022 donors — after his self-funded campaign already spent their money, against federal law. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/wealthy-gop-se…
If booze alternatives aren’t alcohol, does it matter who drinks them? For The Atlantic, I wrote about why the zero-proof movement can’t agree on what it wants to be theatlantic.com/health/archive…
As Roger Sollenberger Mini Racker report, the key technicality that Cruz may be pushing on with his iHeartMedia/super PAC arrangement is the distinction between 'raising' and 'earning.'
thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-tu…
RFK Jr. has a powerful weapon in his arsenal: a 25-year-old politically eclectic content creator Link Lauren who has spun the third-party candidate's TikTok account into one of the largest of any candidate/campaign. Story w/ TaylorLorenz.Substack.com: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
NEW: Ted Cruz is trying to turn his super PAC into a media company — and he may get away with it. Here is as deep a dive as you’re going to get on this unfolding conflict of interest cash scandal. Me w/Mini Racker The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-tu…
NEW: Oregon Democrat Val Hoyle has been at the center of a wild cannabis scandal for a year, and it keeps getting weirder—now, we got some new records that show just how central she is, and it seems the DOJ might have them too. Me w/Mini Racker thedailybeast.com/new-docs-show-…