Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) reelection was such a sure thing that she was projected the winner as polls closed on Election Day, but that didn’t stop liberal groups from challenging her right to be on the ballot.
In addition to facing a well-financed upstart challenger in a race she won 66%-34%, she faced a challenge to having her name on the ballot by a group that labeled her an insurrectionist for defending some of those jailed in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
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Late yesterday, in her first long video tweet since Elon Musk gave back her private @mtgreenee account, Greene revealed that she has legal bills of $700,000.
“They actually attacked me so hard. They tried to get my name taken off the ballot. This was earlier this year, and I couldn’t defend myself and raise money for attorney fees. My attorney fees are approximately around $700,000,” Greene said.
Free speech is dead. https://t.co/G6JqwYxPpR
— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2022
The first-term lawmaker said that in losing her personal Twitter account at the beginning of the year over COVID-19-related tweets the social media platform didn’t like, she lost a huge fundraising avenue to raise money to fight the ballot challenge and opponent Marcus Flowers.
Yesterday, she put in a plug for help in paying down those fees.
“Those arrogant jerks,” she said. “I beat them handily. They appealed, and I beat him again. So that’s where we are right now. So [go to] mtgforamerica.com. You can send me a little present for fighting. I would really appreciate that.”
She also suggested that donors to Flowers, who raised over $14 million, “ask for your money back.”
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She explained, “He never had a chance of winning.” But she said that by banning her from Twitter by taking down her personal account, she couldn’t warn those considering donating to his campaign.
“So basically all that money you guys donated, millions and millions and millions of dollars, you could have donated to try to beat other Republicans,” Greene said. “You poured it into Marcus Flowers, and he lit it on fire like a dumpster fire — just like our cities were in the summer of rage and 2020. That’s what he did with your money. See, your money did nothing.”
