An organizer with a Democrat-aligned political action committee in Texas was recorded describing a program that pays participants to attend a voting-related class as a “roundabout way of paying people for their votes.”
Texas Majority PAC is a George Soros-backed political action committee founded by former Beto O’Rourke staffers focused on electing Democrats statewide and increasing Democratic voter turnout in Texas.
Townhall published an undercover video Wednesday that it identified as showing Sky McAdams, an organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, discussing what McAdams called the “Paid Relational Program.”
“We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to like learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all these bad things,” McAdams said. “So it’s like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially.”
McAdams acknowledged that directly paying someone to vote for a candidate is prohibited but described a different arrangement in which individuals receive $25 for attending the class.
“You can’t be like, here’s $25, go vote for me,” McAdams said. “You can say attend a one-hour class, and you can receive $25.”
McAdams referred to the arrangement as a “creative way” before adding, “if I was a Republican, I would be pissed. I would be like, that’s shady as f**k.”
According to Townhall, Texas Majority PAC reported paying Relentless $500,000 in July for a “relational organizing program.” Relentless says its programs compensate low-propensity voters for reaching, persuading, and mobilizing friends and family to vote.
Texas Majority PAC disputed McAdams’ characterization of the program and said he was immediately fired.
“Participants in the program are being paid for grassroots organizing work,” a PAC spokesperson told Texas Scorecard. “The way it was described by one rogue employee is factually incorrect, not how we operate, and they were immediately fired.”
The PAC said participants are hired and compensated to attend events where they learn how to organize friends and family, encourage those contacts to vote, and send them reminders.
