Rebecca Mansour 6 Aug 2020
Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) nearly doubled her income in 2010 from consulting fees she received from a nonprofit she co-founded, and Bass’s re-election campaign donated nearly $100,000 to that nonprofit between 2008 and 2011, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Bass, a vice presidential contender on Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s VP shortlist, co-founded a South Los Angeles-based nonprofit called the Community Coalition in 1990. Her community organizing with the Coalition laid the groundwork for her successful run for the California State Assembly in 2004, where she would eventually rise to the position of Speaker in 2008.
A Los Angeles Times review of Bass’s financial disclosures found that her State Assembly campaign committees paid the Community Coalition nearly $100,000 between 2008 and 2011. And in 2010, the Community Coalition paid Bass a total of $70,500 in consulting fees, an amount that nearly doubled her State Assembly salary that year.
Financial disclosures show that Bass’s campaign made two major donations to the nonprofit organization that she co-founded.
The first was for $47,000 given between late 2008 (the year Bass became Speaker of the California Assembly) and 2009.
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https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/06/karen-basss-campaign-gave-nearly-100k-to-nonprofit-she-co-founded-which-paid-her-70k-for-consulting/
