Fox News is reporting that anti-gun Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, a one-time presidential candidate who suggested gun owners be prosecuted if they didn’t participate in “buyback” programs for semi-auto rifles, “appears to have spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on booze and limousine services, as well as over $20,000 at the luxury hotel where his wife works.”
The report comes after Fox News reviewed FEC records. TGM looked at the same records and found many “credit card processing fees” in June, several expenses for food and beverages, a payment of $20,500 and another for $18,000 to Berger Hirschberg Strategies of Washington, D.C. for fund raising services, and another $20,000 for political consulting to Fanthropology in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
According to Fox, “More than $20,000 of the campaign funds that were spent at luxury hotels went to the Ritz Carlton, Half Moon Bay, where Swalwell’s wife has been the director of sales since February 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile.”
Swalwell famously declared on the presidential campaign trail two years ago in his literature, “We must keep dangerous weapons off of our streets, improve our background check system, make sure the mentally ill receive the treatment they need, and provide schools the required resources to keep our children secure.
“To keep these weapons of war out of our communities,” Swalwell said in his campaign message, “I support banning the manufacture, import, sale, and possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons and high capacity magazines (i.e., hold more than 10 rounds). We should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the new law, and anyone found to be in possession of such a weapon after the buyback period has elapsed would be in violation and subject to prosecution.”
The proposal resulted in a new term: “compensated confiscation,” since there would be nothing voluntary about it. Either surrender your semiautomatic modern sporting rifle or face prosecution and jail time.
