Wasn't this the guy that was buying donations to try and qualify?
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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That's him.
The two-term governor made it to the debate stage twice, gaining some name recognition when he became the first candidate to offer $20 gift cards to those who contributed $1 to his campaign in an effort to hit the RNC’s qualifying rules that candidates must reach 40,000 individual donors.
I honestly didn't even know he pulled that stunt initially. Good lot that did him.
I guess he distributed some wealth at least. Whichever millionaire donor that backed him just got suckered out of like a million dollars worth of gift cards.
While I'm sure Burgum has some backers, he himself is "independently" wealthy. He owned a software development company that he sold to Microsoft. So I wonder if he just bankrolled a lot of that himself.