Donated to Dems
Never won an election…gee, sound like someone else we know?
How can someone be a "career politician" if they've never been elected?
first peek - I was looking for campaign donor info, but stumbled on this. Guy is a "wealth manager" but blames a tax lien on his change of address?
Republican gubernatorial candidate Travis Allen’s number one campaign issue is taxes. Allen, a state assemblyman from Orange County, launched a ballot initiative to repeal California’s new gas tax, and has promised to cut state tax rates if elected. “Californians pay among the highest taxes in the entire nation,” he said in a video announcing his campaign.
But Allen himself failed to pay more than $42,000 in federal income tax for 2012 and 2013, public records show — and didn’t shell out until the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against him earlier this year.
He paid the back taxes after getting hit with the lien in February 2017. The IRS released the lien in May, according to documents filed with the Orange County Clerk-Recorder’s office.
A spokeswoman for Allen’s campaign attributed the late taxes to a wrong address. Allen moved both his business and residential addresses in the last few years, she said.
“Due to this shuffle, tax notices were sent to a previous address and Assemblyman Allen did not receive them,” the spokeswoman said. “As soon as he was made aware of these issues, he remedied them immediately.”
His 2012 tax debt, $22,209.25, was assessed in November 2013, and his 2013 tax debt, $20,282.92, was assessed in July 2016 — for a total of $42,492.17 that Allen paid late.
www.ocregister.com/2017/08/29/travis-allen-california-governor-tax-irs-lien/
His donations started in August 2010, when he gave $100 to Newsom’s campaign for lieutenant governor. Newsom is now one of his rivals in the 2018 governor’s race. Allen, who lives in Huntington Beach, also gave $250 to the Democratic Party of Orange County’s federal political action committee.
In October 2010, Allen gave $250 to California Sen. Barbara Boxer, $250 to the state Democratic Party and $1,000 to Brown. The donation to Brown was made in the name of the financial planning firm Allen owns, Wealth Strategies Group. All of the other contributions to Democrats were made in his own name.
Allen also gave $250 to “4 for Senate Victory,” a committee that supported Democratic U.S. senators and Senate candidates, in October 2010 — although it’s unclear whether that was a separate donation from the $250 he gave to Boxer. The committee bankrolled candidates like Boxer, Michael Bennet of Colorado and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Finally, in June 2011, Allen donated $500 to the campaign of Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, who made headlines this year for becoming the first member of Congress to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump.
www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/07/travis-allen-governor-assembly-donations-democrats-jerry-brown/
His top donor is the CA Medical Assn
I think this guy is Very suspect
votesmart.org/candidate/campaign-finance/138473/travis-allen
tbh I didn't understand the Cox endorsement either, saw an interview and was Not impressed
that said, there's something kind of eye-candy about his entire platform…"Trump voters will go for this!" sort of thing. I'm looking at his money - have you (anyone) looked at his voting record while in the assembly?