The Eric Swalwell scandal continues to explode, giving endless evidence that the state of California dodged a bullet.
A new report from the New York Post reveals that the lawmaker vying to become the state’s next governor “billed an eye-watering amount of booze deliveries to his campaigns, including charges during a series of jaunts to Las Vegas.” This comes after he suspended his gubernatorial campaign and resigned from Congress amid a slew of sexual misconduct allegations that range from harassment to rape.
The sheer amount of alcohol purchases, facilitated by a now-defunct booze delivery app called ‘Drizly,’ spanned over four years and began in 2020. It included over 100 individual purchases, which shockingly “accounted for roughly a quarter of all payments to the service from various candidates’ campaigns, political committees and PACs since 2019, according to the Federal Election Commission.”
Alex Evans, former chief of staff for Swalwell, admitted that while the expenditures may not cross the threshold into illegal, “it might not be the best use of donor money.”
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” he told the California Post.
He racked up around $6,100 in charges for alcohol alone, and the spending dates match up with the time that he had multiple trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2021, the report notes.
“In July of that year, Swalwell racked up thousands of dollars in charges for hotel stays at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, a five-star hotel and casino. Swalwell appears to have visited the Cosmopolitan three times over a 10-day period that month — on July 9, 12, and 19,” The Post reported.
Additional luxury charges during that period included “a $117.54 charge at STK Steakhouse and a $439.57 bill at Jean Georges Steakhouse at Aria,” and dropping a massive $940.01 at the Cosmopolitan. This means he spent over $3,100 across 10 days in Vegas.
Following Drizly’s incorporation into Uber Eats, Swalwell can be seen using “the Uber Eats food and drink delivery app more than 220 times after Drizly shut down, including as recently as this year,” according to The Post, though it’s not clear whether the purchases are for food or alcohol.
Some of Swalwell’s accusers noted that the lawmaker would invite them to drink or would be intoxicated when he sent them messages. One even claims that she engaged in drinking with him, only to end up in his bed with no recollection of how she got there or what they may have done the night before. It will be hard to fight such allegations when it’s clear that he loves his booze, and his own campaign records show it.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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