'Here's The Rub': Tenney Breaks Down Spending Of $419 Million From Zuckerberg For Pandemic Election

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During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Wednesday, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) spoke about money donated from Zuckerberg to support the election during the pandemic.

NOTE: There is no evidence of widespread voter-fraud during the 2020 election.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for calling today's markup and for

00:04including my bill 8291, the N. Zuckerberg Act, as part of this markup. For those of

00:10you who are not familiar, I serve as the co-chair of the House Election Integrity

00:14Caucus, the only one of its kind in Congress. Our caucus currently has over

00:1870 members focused on driving common-sense solutions to ensure

00:21fairness in the democratic process and improve the administration of elections.

00:26We have numerous policy priorities and that includes my bill, the N. Zuckerberg Act,

00:31which would prevent 501c3s from providing funding to state and local

00:36elections. In the 2020 election, Mark Zuckerberg, the famous Facebook CEO,

00:42under the guise of an organization called the Center for Tech and Civic

00:47Life, a left-wing nonprofit group flooded left-leaning county governments in Texas,

00:53Ohio, Nevada, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, and even my own state

00:59of New York to try to, Pennsylvania, with opaque private funding to influence

01:05election administration for their own purposes. And let me just stress, I heard

01:10some of the ranking member and other Democrats refer to this as,

01:13you know, helping out with this horrible pandemic election. Well, the facts

01:19are that in 2020, Governor Cuomo was the governor of New York. They changed

01:25election law over 100 times during the pandemic election, and not once did they

01:30increase funding or assist the local governments in trying to administer

01:34elections. And this is what caused so many of the problems, not just in New

01:38York, but throughout the country. And CTCL, or the Center for Tech and Civic Life,

01:43uses this money as a leverage over these cash-strapped election agencies, forcing

01:49them into advancing its own partisan agenda. And when the chairman talks about

01:54hundreds of millions, it was 419 million dollars from Zuckerberg that was

01:59flooded to field under the guise of making voting safer amid the pandemic.

02:05Yet here's the rub. 1% of those funds were spent on PPE. Just 1%. 92% went to

02:16left-leaning districts that were aiming to actually try to sway the

02:21election. Since then, CTCL has been using its subsidiary organization, the Alliance

02:27for Election Excellence, to provide heavily discounted services to certain

02:31jurisdictions. This includes in-depth consulting services that can help shape

02:35the voting processes without Democrat input from residents. Without my bill, the

02:40N. Zuckerberg Act, left-wing groups will continue trying to unfairly influence

02:45the election process, and voters shall ultimately have the say. And part of the

02:51problem is, it makes it so impossible, especially during this pandemic election,

02:56for these boards to actually carry out their role to ensure that we have fair

03:00elections, and to preserve election integrity, which is the mission of all

03:04of these groups. And I just want to mention just a couple things about the

03:09Center for Tech and Civic Life, and some of the references made by Republicans

03:13being concerned about what happens in our elections. The Democrats made

03:18objections to election results in 2001, 2005, 2017, after the losing candidate had

03:26already conceded the race. Interestingly, in a very partisan way, the Democrats did

03:32not object to 2009 or 2013 on the floor of the House of Representatives. And it's

03:37important to note that these have become very partisan exercises. But I think if we

03:41pass my bill, we will let the voters know that we will preserve the most profound

03:47expression of self-governance, and that is our sacred right to vote in a fair

03:53and private election. This is how we're going to preserve our elections. This is

03:58how we're going to keep private money, partisan money, out of elections, whether

04:01it's left or right. And I want to make sure that we do preserve election

04:05integrity in this very controversial and obviously very contentious election

04:09upcoming right now. And so if we pass my bill, and we clean elections up, and we

04:15make sure that elections aren't partisan, we make sure that private players aren't

04:19interfering with proper government action, we will make voting great again.

04:24And with that, I yield back, Mr. Chairman.

'Here's The Rub': Tenney Breaks Down Spending Of $419 Million From Zuckerberg For Pandemic Election

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