This Week In Kari Lake’s Nightmare Campaign: Lake “Facing An Onslaught of Questions” About Her “Principles” As “Financial Disclosures Raise Questions”

For Immediate Release
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Contact: Olivia Taylor-Puckett, otpuckett@azdem.org
This Week In Kari Lake’s Nightmare Campaign: Lake “Facing An Onslaught of Questions” About Her “Principles” As Her “Financial Disclosures Raise Questions”

ARIZONA -– The chaos surrounding Kari Lake’s campaign after she forced the AZ GOP’s chair to resign came to a crescendo over the weekend when reports detailed how Lake was “booed at Arizona GOP meeting. Now, her “financial disclosures raise questions” by revealing “Lake was paid $102,000 by company led by [the] former Arizona GOP chairman she helped oust.”

The revelation that Kari Lake was paid more than $100,000 by Jeff DeWit’s company, Superfeed, raises new questions about Lake’s finances as she continues to face scrutiny over “possible motive […] with regard to her infamous taped conversation with DeWit and the timing of its subsequent release” and the “billion-dollar question […] Who sent the party chair?”

The events of last week sparked a new wave of new concerns from Republicans aboutLake’s Senate candidacy, summarized by one veteran Republican strategist fretting “Kari is toast.”

KPNX/12 News: Kari Lake was paid $102,000 by company led by former Arizona GOP chairman she helped oust, financial disclosure shows. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake earned at least $102,000 from a company that was led by Jeff DeWit, who resigned last week as Arizona Republican Party chairman after Lake accused him of trying to bribe her to get out of politics.

Arizona Republic: Kari Lake’s finances: She got six-figure pay from company once led by former ex-GOP chair. U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake was paid more than $100,000 for up to 15 months of service with the company once headed by the man she helped depose last week as chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

Arizona Republic Opinion: If Trump’s team tried to pay Kari Lake to get lost, that would truly be a bombshell. What if Trump’s team sent the AZ GOP chair to convince Kari Lake not to run for U.S. Senate? A former chairwoman suggests it’s possible.

Northeast Valley News Editorial: Trumpy, tipsy, Kari Lake—always under the influence of her idol—but the Senate candidate was booed and heckled at the Arizona Republican State Convention on Saturday. Kari Lake loves to point to her “journalistic” background and her stand on ethics—but now she is facing an onslaught of questions surrounding her own moral principles after a new possible motive surfaced with regard to her infamous taped conversation with DeWit and the timing of its subsequent release.
Newsweek: Kari Lake’s Financial Disclosures Raise Questions. Senate candidate Kari Lake’s financial disclosures have come under scrutiny, after it emerged she was paid $101,507 for working as an adviser to Superfeed Technologies, the company once headed by Jeff DeWit—who she helped depose last week as chair of the Arizona Republican Party.

Washington Examiner: Kari Lake earned six figures from company led by GOP chairman she helped oust. Kari Lake, who is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona, was paid $101,507 for her work at a company once headed by the former Arizona Republican Party chairman she helped oust last week.

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