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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Republican challenger has poured tens of thousands of dollars from her no-chance but well-funded campaign into a company belonging to her husband, The Daily Beast has found.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, the husband of Republican candidate Cicely Davis confessed that his firm has received extensive payments from his wife’s campaign to defeat Omar in the deeply Democratic Minneapolis district. Bradley Ross Ireland, who has run a string of troubled Minnesota bars, said he has served as the campaign’s primary graphic designer—a role that nets him $100 to $200 per hour, depending on the exact task he performs.
“We’ve been doing everything from branding of her campaign, marketing, design of flyers, design of builders, design of literally everything,” he said, acknowledging that he is presently the company’s only employee.