Here is their profile on Open Secrets: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup ... cycle=2020 which shows that they have raised $118,997 this election cycle and spent $108,100 but spending can be on anything from office space to consulting fees to whatever. They aren't required to report what they actually spent on.
They address is listed as a PO Box in Arlington Virginia, so obviously a Washington DC beltway organization and not something organic or locally grown in Lancaster or Holmes Co. or any Menno place.
The head of the Amish PAC and sole listed officer as someone named Taylor O. Swindle (which is an interesting name for a political operative
) and who turns out to be this guy who's main job is to work for Newt Ginrich's new political organization called Ginrich360: https://www.gingrich360.com/meet-the-te ... %E2%80%AF/ and who is apparently is from Florida and lives in Florida.Their most recent SEC filing is here: https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/330/202007 ... navpanes=0 which lists their donors who are scattered across the country, none in Amish country.
And here is an article about their clumsy 2016 attempt to run a paid ad in the Budget that was not well received: https://www.fandm.edu/news/latest-news/ ... -community
So there you have it. The Amish PAC is the creation of one of Newt Ginrich's staffers who lives in Florida and raises money from across the country to spend in some unspecified way on getting out the Amish vote. And doesn't appear to really have any real connections to or knowledge of the Amish community based on their inept attempts so far.“The Budget does have paid advertisements, and Amish PAC contacted The Budget and laid out an offer with a fairly aggressive advertising campaign with one sizable ad on Page 2 every week throughout the election,” he said.
The ad that ran featured candidate Trump and some statements about him that highlighted his background as a businessman who operates family businesses, who is not a politician, who would appoint conservative judges, and who does not drink alcohol
Professor Nolt, director of Elizabethtown's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, says an Amish-read newspaper took a hammering from its readers when it ran a political ad featuring a picture of candidate Trump.
“Within a day of this ad appearing, non-Amish editors at The Budget began receiving feedback from Amish readers [that was] uniformly negative,” Nolt said. “Within three days, the paper had received more negative feedback to this advertisement than to any advertisement it had ever run. So then, the editors of The Budget called the Amish PAC and canceled the rest of the advertising contract.”
