Trump's campaign manager cashes in
Kellyanne Conway's firm collected fees from the campaign and a pro-Trump
super PAC.
10/03/16
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway will emerge from the
2016 campaign as a winner,
regardless of the result on Election Day, thanks to her unique
relationships with a succession of overlapping
committees and mega-donors.
As Conway’s profile has soared during the 2016 campaign, her small
Washington-based polling firm has collected
nearly $1.9 million and counting in fees from federally registered
political campaign committees — more than twice
as much as in any prior election, according to a POLITICO analysis of
Federal Election Commission filings.
Yet her firm’s work for Trump’s presidential campaign and a supportive
super PAC that had previously backed Ted Cruz’s
rival campaign for the GOP nomination has raised eyebrows among
Republicans who have worked with the veteran pollster.
They suggest that her firm’s lucrative 2016 portfolio undermines Trump’s
anti-big-money messaging, while raising questions
about the depth of Conway’s loyalty to Trump, not to mention his
campaign’s efforts to adhere to complicated election rules
prohibiting coordination between super PACs and campaigns.
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trumps-campaign-manager-kellyanne-conway-229027
