Black Lives Matter, the organization which is allegedly meant to help the black community, paid nearly $150,000 to an art company to co-produce live election coverage on November 3rd.
The art company is ran by the father of Patrisse Cullor’s only child; the lesbian founder pf BLM.
Industry experts say that the kind of production should have cost a fraction of the price. Obviously, after all the donations from people supporting the BLM cause last summer, the organization had money to burn on a Youtube livestream.
The two-hour and 43-minute livestream obviously did not cover the whole of the election, although for that kind of money, they should have stayed on the livestream for the entire election week. The livestream ran on Cullors’ personal Youtube channel on election night, but it was hindered with all kinds of issues including audio, and other technical problems. The stream currently remains online, but it’s unlisted. It only got 3,200 views on election night, despite getting attention from the Los Angeles Times.
The Daily Caller adds the following:
“The owners of two video production companies that have been in business for a combined six decades lampooned the quality of the live stream and said it should have cost no more than $55,000 to competently produce such an event.”
“Preproduction and the night of the shoot – everything all-in – $50,000 to $55,000 is what our estimate would be. And it would look awesome,” said Tim Cramer, the owner of Mosaic.
Mosaic is a video production company that has been in business for 24 years. “That’s the set, the venue, that’s everything. And that’s all-top tier,” he added.
Cramer said that BLM was “severely overcharged” across the board. He then added “I don’t know how you get that much money into that production. I don’t know how you get there.”
The owner of another video production company said he could have done the job for $20,000.
“There’s definitely something amiss between just the cost, and when you add who the benefactor of this project was, that alone is a conflict of interest,” said the video producer, who asked to stay anonymous out of fear of professional retaliation. “You add the amount of money they got paid for such a useless, awful piece of video production. It just smells really, really bad.”
He then added that the severely overpriced livestream looked awful, and that it was “cheap and nasty looking.”
Federal Election Commission records show, that BLM PAC paid the art company Trap Heals a combined $148,300 to co-produce the live stream.
“Besides paying Trap Heals almost $150,000 to produce an unprofessional video that high school students would be embarrassed to produce, the excessive payments by Cullors to Trap Heals that she co-chairs with the father of her child raises serious questions whether political contributions to BLM PAC were not only misspent but also enriched her personally,” said the counsel to the conservative watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center, Paul Kamenar.
Cullors identified Trap Heals founder and CEO Damon Turner as the father of her only child on her verified Instagram page. She was also identified as a co-chair of the art company in a 2020 press release, The Daily Caller reported.
