You could knock me over with a feather!
“A campaign is not supposed to be a pass-through for charitable work,” former City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli, a Republican, told the Post. “What if she raised enough money for a million turkeys? Would she buy a million turkeys, or would she keep $990,000 for her campaign and then throw the rest of the turkeys out the back of a truck and take a photo-op? This is a clear case of why a campaign is not a charitable organization.”
… It gets worse. According to the FEC, when a politician raises money for a community charity, as AOC did with her email plea, there’s no legal obligation to disclose how much is raised or where it goes. That means no one outside her inner circle knows how much was raised or how many turkeys ever reached a needy family—if any did at all.