Wall of Shame — Today: Maynard Nexsen
Today on the Wall of Shame: the Maynard Nexsen PAC (Birmingham) has put $5,000 into Rep. Shomari Figures' campaign account. The same firm was also writing checks to the Republican primary opponent — bipartisan hedging from the firm representing Regions Bank in the Mabel Amos case. The Wall of Shame exists for one reason — so that total stops growing. https://take2back.com/wall-of-shame.html
Look at What Just Happened to His Party
This is not hysteria. It is the last ninety days. In New York, a self-described democratic socialist sits in City Hall — and last month his hand-picked candidates went to war with his own party and won: one of them knocked off Congressman Adriano Espaillat, the sitting chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. In Colorado, a first-time DSA-backed candidate ended the thirty-year career of Congresswoman Diana DeGette. A democratic socialist is on track to run Washington, D.C. Another is in a runoff for mayor of Los Angeles. More than thirty socialists have won Democratic primaries this year, taking nearly half the races they entered. The DSA's own national co-chair says the goal out loud: "replace capitalism with socialism." They are not infiltrating the Democratic Party. They are inheriting it.
So Where Was Shomari Figures?
Silent. Comfortable. Cashing the checks. He will tell you he once cast a vote condemning socialism — and he did. Symbolic votes are free. They cost a congressman nothing, and he knows it. Watch what he does when a vote actually bites: He voted AGAINST ending federal taxes on tips and overtime — against the waitress in Dothan and the lineman in Enterprise. He voted AGAINST American energy, again and again — against LNG exports, against reliable natural gas, against reversing the lock-ups on coal, oil, and gas — while District 2 families pay some of the highest power bills in the South. He voted AGAINST requiring proof of citizenship to vote. And three separate times he voted AGAINST blocking Chinese Communist Party money and influence in our K-12 schools. Three times. A limited-government scorecard grades his record at 14 percent. That is not a Wiregrass Democrat. That is a national party soldier with an Alabama return address.
Follow the Money, and You'll Know Who He Works For
You don't have to guess who owns this seat. Figures's own FEC filings say it. This cycle he has raised $827,549 — and $576,373 of it came from political action committees, against just $237,171 from actual human beings writing checks. Roughly seventy cents of every dollar is PAC money. That is $2.43 from Washington committees for every single dollar from a person. The PACs are not helping his campaign. They ARE his campaign. And a man funded by Washington votes like Washington — every time.
Wednesday, They Have to Show Us Again
Quarterly FEC reports covering April through June are due Wednesday, July 15. Watch the ratio, not the headline number. The question is not whether Shomari Figures raised money — of course he did. It is whether one dime of it came from the people he was sent to represent, or whether the same Washington committees are still paying the freight. We will publish exactly what the filing shows.
This Seat Is Winnable. Act Like It.
President Trump carried this district by 14 points. National Democrats have already stamped Figures onto their "Frontline" list — the roster of incumbents they expect to lose — because even they can see it: a PAC-funded voting record from a party sliding toward socialism does not survive District 2 when people are paying attention. The socialists are not shy about what they want. Neither should we be. August 11 picks the Republican nominee. November ends the experiment. Take Back District 2.
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