Vulnerable Democratic senator attended Hollywood fundraiser with donor linked to discrimination scandal
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., recently stepped away from his farm to raise money in Hollywood with a high-profile Democratic donor linked to allegations of credit discrimination, coming on the heels of the vulnerable politician also receiving help to raise funds from an individual. linked to corruption allegations last summer.
The tester was photographed at a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Nov. 4, after the Montana lawmaker had already raised astronomical amounts of campaign money from the Golden State.
A similar fundraiser for Tester, with many of the same hosts, was held on June 27, the same day the Montana Democrat was challenged by Republican candidate and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy with a huge support. During the second and third quarters of this year, he raised nearly a million dollars from donors in California.
“Jon Tester knows where his supporters are, and it’s certainly not Montana,” Montana Republican Party Chairman Don “K” Kaltschmidt told Fox News Digital. “Test voters like California’s third senator and liberal coastal elites know he’s on lockstep with their far-left agenda that is crushing Montanans with sky-high inflation, rising gas prices gas and higher taxes. Montanans are ready to retire career liberal politician Jon Tester and send a strong conservative to the U.S. Senate in 2024,”
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Montana Republican Senate candidate and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy (left) and Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester (right). (Tim Sheehy for Montana/Getty Images)
America’s Got Talent host Howie Mandel was listed as a guest at both fundraisers, which had a minimum guest fee of $500 and a host fee of up to $6,600, according to event flyers.
Some of Tester’s fundraiser attendees have also been linked to allegations of corruption and discrimination.
Russel Goldsmith, a former top executive at City National Bank who reached a deal with the Department of Justice to pay $31 million in restitution for “redlining” in Los Angeles County in January 2023, was at the fundraisers. June and November funds.
When Goldsmith served as CEO and president from 2017 to 2020, City National Bank allegedly “engaged in a pattern or practice of credit discrimination through ‘redlining’ in Los Angeles County” and “avoided providing mortgage loan services to majority black and Hispanic neighborhoods. in Los Angeles County and discouraged residents of these neighborhoods from obtaining mortgage loans,” according to a press release of the Department of Justice.
“In addition, City National has only opened one branch in a majority Black and Hispanic neighborhood in the past twenty years, despite having opened or acquired 11 branches during that period,” the Department of Justice press release continues.
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Goldsmith also hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Senator Jon Tester is seeking re-election in 2024. (McNamee wins)
Thomas Safran, a real estate developer who was also listed in the flyer for Tester’s June event, which the Montana lawmaker did not attend, is currently embroiled in a real estate corruption scandal after giving tens of thousands of dollars to the councilman’s wife. of the city of Los Angeles. Curren Price’s consulting firm before Price voted on Safran-related projects. Price was criminally charged for failing to disclose payments made to his wife before the vote.
The June and November events were hosted by Nancy Stephens and Rick Rosenthal, two of Hollywood’s top Democratic donors.
During the 2014 midterm elections, Stephens blamed Democrats’ losses on voters who “watched Orange is the New Black as if the election was inconsequential.”
“Where is the disconnect? Is it the ignorance of the voters, or the lack of bragging about the things this president accomplished, or is everyone just on Facebook or watching Orange is the New Black as if the election had no consequences !”. Stephens told the Daily Beast after the election.
Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy is seeking to unseat Tester in 2024. (Tim Sheehy for Senate campaign)
William Mutterperl, former member of the board of directors of BlackRock, linked to ESG, was another of the guests included. According to the November brochure, the event was paid for by the Tester Victory Fund.
Tester’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Tester announced in February that he would seek reelection to the Montana Senate as Democrats defend 23 of the 34 Senate seats up for grabs in the next cycle.
