Human Rights Campaign spokeswoman uses Kompromat to raise money

Human Rights Campaign spokeswoman uses Kompromat to raise money

"At first, it had nothing to do with politics. Charlotte Clymer, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, had mentioned Sunday on Twitter to her 277,000 followers that the finale of a popular television show a few years ago had been terrible and that it still made her mad. She wouldn’t say which show, for fear of hurting the show writers’ feelings.

But her followers wanted to know! So she offered this: If they could raise $10,000 in an hour, she’d reveal the name of the show. Seven hundred people donated $27,000. (It was HBO’s “Girls.”)

But it didn’t stop there. The next night, Clymer said she’d met a U.S. senator, still in office, at an event years ago with whom she had “a terrible interaction because they were awful.” 

If her supporters could raise $100,000 for Warren by midnight Tuesday, she said, she’d disclose who it was. The money started coming in so fast that she upped the number to $200,000. As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, the pledged amount stood at $74,000.

Now Warren supporters are promoting the hashtag #SpilltheTeaforWarren and urging others with big followings on social media to reveal a secret in exchange for donations to the Democratic candidate’s campaign."

By Colby Itkowitz

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/democratic-debate/