Minneapolis Review

Jennifer Carnahan, the Chair of the Minnesota Republican Party, has released a statement on behalf of the party on State Rep. Dean Phillips and his past comments about PACs and corruption, according to the Republican Party of Minnesota.

With plenty of evidence to back her claim, Carnahan ripped into Phillips about his current actions and the hypocrisy that they show when put into context with his past comments. 

“Phillips lectures Minnesotans about the ‘corrupting influence of PACs’ and claims the campaign finance system rewards the ‘relentless pursuit of money.’ What Phillips doesn’t tell Minnesotans is that his campaign manager led a SuperPAC, Kitchen Table Conversations, during the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary which could spend ‘unlimited amounts of money’ to help a preferred candidate’s White House bid and raised nearly $3 million to do just that," Carnahan said. “Phillips also fails to tell Minnesotans that the top recipient for payments from the Kitchen Table Conversations SuperPAC was United Strategies LLC, a political consulting group founded and operated by the same Campaign Manager that founded and operated the SuperPAC. United Strategies received $84,000 for various ‘media,’ ‘fundraising,’ and ‘strategic’ consulting services over a four week period in February and March 2020. In short, the campaign manager was paid $21,000 a week to consult himself.”

Phillips and his campaign have not responded to the assertion yet, and have yet to issue a statement of their own to refute or contend the claims made by Carnahan and State Republicans.