ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones is getting tired of playing games with GOP lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
In April, Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee issued a report accusing the Democratic fundraising platform of allowing foreign actors to commit fraud and working to cover up those actions. That report was accompanied by an invitation to testify before the committee about the issue. On Wednesday, House GOP members subpoenaed ActBlue's former vice president of customer service, Alyssa Twomey, and an unnamed senior workflow specialist.
The committee accused the ActBlue employees of not complying with their "voluntary processes."
Wallace-Jones shot back at Reps. James Comer (R-KY), Bryan Steil (R-WI), and Jim Jordan (R-OH), who lead the House committees investigating ActBlue. She told Politico that their investigation is “political theater” that would “give Shakespeare a run for his money.”
“The Republican-led committees have also not addressed ActBlue’s legitimate concerns about the partisan and parallel inquiries by separate branches of the government being waged against President Trump’s and MAGA Republicans’ political opponents,” Wallace-Jones told the outlet.
The subpoenas arrived at a complicated time for ActBlue. The Department of Justice began investigating the firm in April after President Donald Trump issued a memo directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to issue a report about foreign "straw donors" on ActBlue.
"Notwithstanding these laws designed to protect American democracy, press reports and investigations by congressional committees have generated extremely troubling evidence that online fundraising platforms have been willing participants in schemes to launder excessive and prohibited contributions to political candidates and committees," the memo reads in part.
ActBlue leaders have described the investigation as a "partisan violation of the Constitution."
