I don’t know anything about this Clawson guy or what motivates him. His donations to the GOPe are pretty much standard procedure and I have no clue as to why he would have donated to Stupidcow.
I just know its not unusual for big money donors to give money to both sides.
“I just know its not unusual for big money donors to give money to both sides.”
That is, as a general rule, true. But Clawson didn’t make the types of donations that one would expect a CEO to make; he gave nothing (at least at the federal level) prior to 2009, then gave $1,000 to Stabenow (3 years before her reelection—it was one of her early fundraisers to pad her cash-on-hand and scare off potential Republican challengers), then $10,000 to Mitch McConnell at the end of 2013 (the max donations for the primary and the general, with the remainder going to the state party). This isn’t the case of a CEO who gives to both the committee chairman and the ranking minority member of the committees that regulate his company’s industry; his donations are more akin to someone without a set political ideology who wanted to do some networking with politically connected folks in the state where his company was located so he went to a Stabenow fundraiser, and then, after he decided that he was a conservative Republican who wanted to move somewhere and run for Congress, he gave $10,000 to arguably the highest-ranking Republican in the nation.
I hope that Clawson is as conservative as he claims, but this guy has been subject to no vetting, and has absolutely no record to prove his conservative bona fides. Huge gamble for Florida Republicans to have chosen Clawson over two candidates with long, proven conservative records.
We know nothing about Clawson’s political views prior to 2013 or 2014.