Emails: Biden-Backing Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Tried To Meddle In Pennsylvania’s Election

 Professor of election law served as an intermediary between Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg and the Philadelphia election board

• Emails obtained by investigative journalist Todd Shepherd reveal that Bloomberg attempted to broker as much as $3 million in private funding for the Democrat stronghold mere months before the 2020 election
• Stanford Law Professor Nathaniel Persily worked directly with Bloomberg to push the funding request
• Whether Bloomberg ever provided the requested funding is unknown from the email threads

Bloomberg’s Track Record

• Prior to backing Biden, Bloomberg ran in the Democrat presidential primary
• Even after dropping out of the race, Bloomberg vowed to continue to support the Democratic nominee even if he loses the Democratic nomination
• Bloomberg plans to use his extensive data and analytics capabilities to give the eventual Democratic nominee an edge
• Will establish an independent funding vehicle to pay for the Hawkfish analytics and for staffers to support whichever candidate wins the nomination

'Arbitrary and Disparate Treatment'

• Private funding of get-out-the-vote efforts is one thing, but when individuals coordinate with government actors, that triggers constitutional concerns under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
• In Bush v. Gore, the United States Supreme Court made clear that "the right to vote is protected in more than the initial allocation of the franchise."
• The Equal Protection clause requires that states grant equal terms to voters, and that the state "not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of any."

The Extent of Bloomberg's Meddling

• While these organizations' partisan targeting of election offices played a more significant role in interfering in the 2020 election, Bloomberg's attempt to also fund specific election activities in heavily Democratic areas of the swing state of Pennsylvania represents a more serious affront to the integrity of the 2020 vote.
• With the millions donated by the Facebook founder, the funds were laundered through nonprofits with grant procedures in place, creating plausible deniability for government employees interested in obtaining additional cash to run their election efforts.
• With Bloomberg, the emails suggest there was no formal grant process and that he used liaisons to coordinate the funding.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/03/emails-biden-backing-billionaire-michael-bloomberg-tried-to-meddle-in-pennsylvanias-election/