MTG Raises Personal Security Expenditures By 40X

The New York Times reports:

From January to May, Ms. Greene spent nearly $183,000 of campaign funds to retain the KaJor Group, a private security company that has also been used by Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who shot three men, two fatally, at a 2020 protest against police violence in Kenosha, Wis.

Greene, who won the Republican nomination to retain her seat on Tuesday, has made monthly payments of $41,420 to $49,551 to the company, which highlights its ability to “invoke righteousness in the most uncertain and inconceivable of times.”

Before January, Ms. Greene’s operation had spent around $1,000 in campaign money each month on security. During the first quarter of last year, she spent just $4,650 on security. So far this year, she has spent almost 40 times that sum.

Read the full article. The outlay is far more than any other candidate running in 2022, per the NYT.