Steve Daines got influx of cash after vote to extend an investor visa program "rampant" with fraud

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Source: Salon

IGOR DERYSH

OCTOBER 3, 2020 10:00AM (UTC)

Excerpt:

Daines reportedly met with Su, a major Republican donor, at the Yellowstone Club at the invitation of CrossHarbor Capital Partners before voting for the extension. He received an influx of donations from the company's executives two days after the vote.

Daines, who has extensive ties to China, and then-Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., who later served as President Trump's Interior secretary, met with Su at the Yellowstone Club in 2016 to court Chinese investment in Montana. They promised to provide investors with maximum support and assistance, according to a translation of an article published in the Chinese media outlet Chuansongme.

Su is the founder of the Artisan Business Group, which helps Chinese investors establish relationships in the U.S., and is a "leading authority on EB-5 marketing and promotion." Su visited the Yellowstone Club at the invitation of CrossHarbor Capital Partners, according to Chuansongme.

Su donated $3,000 to Daines' Big Sky Committee around the time of the meeting, the only individual contribution on the committee's September 2016 Federal Election Commission report. Su has donated $6,500 to Daines' campaign, leadership PAC and super PAC since 2016. He has also donated $10,000 to the Montana Republican Party and more than $59,000 to the NRSC and Republican candidates and political committees.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/10/03/steve-daines-got-influx-of-cash-after-vote-to-extend-an-investor-visa-program-rampant-with-fraud/

[WSHazel]

1. Totally fraudulent program

It is a money laundering super-highway.

[patphil]

2. Way back when, Will Rogers Sr. said, "We have the best government money can buy".

Still true today, except for the "best" part.
Of course that's just a matter of point of view.

[StClone]

3. C is for Conservative (what they say they are)

Or Con, or Criminal, or Conspiracy, or Chaos, or Crooked, or Clique, or Collusion, or Complicit, or Corrupt, Cowardly, or Cronyism, or Cutthroat...

[2naSalit]

4. I just got home from a drive-in rally for Bullock and

the other Dems running this year. Bullock ripped him a new one. Some rumpsters tried to get in the picture behind him at a golf course behind the event but staffers fixed it and all was good.

It was a well attended event for our county and I hope all our Dem candidates win. I think there will be a lot of people voting for Bullock since Daines has a small following comparatively. Bullock has won four successive statewide campaigns, Daines only won with outside $$ which is frowned upon in these parts. I have listened to the debates and Daines sounds like djtj trying to sell a pile of shot as a chocolate sundae.

Everyone should be concerned about getting Daines out of office since he's all about selling off OUR public lands that belong to every citizen in this country and killing the ACA.