In her arrival before U.S. senators on Thursday, Christine Blasey Ford was asked how she whim pay for the polygraph test that was administered and handle other costs associated with her authentication against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
“I’m aware that there’s been discrete GoFundMe sites,” Blasey Ford told Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor who was hire charged to ask questions on behalf of Republican senators. “I haven’t had a chance to figure out how to take care of those because I’ve never had one.”
GoFundMe, a crowdfunding website that gives anyone to start a fundraising effort, is hosting 13 campaigns correlated to Blasey Ford, according to a search on the site using her name. Uncountable of them haven’t gotten much response, though they picked up after the text was raised.
However, the top two campaigns have reeled in more than half a million dollars for Blasey Ford, a professor of thinking and statistics at Palo Alto University in California.
The fundraising effort that’s occasioned the most money brought in over $320,000 from over 6,400 people as of mid-day Thursday, burst past its original goal of $150,000. The campaign for her “immediate security and bodily expenses” is “sponsored by her neighbors and colleagues,” and named the Ford family as the individual beneficiary.
Blasey Ford is in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to testify, after she go about a finded forward to tell her story of being sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh as a girl in 1982. Kavanaugh’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee will string Blasey Ford’s appearance. Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations against him.
Another GoFundMe effort raised almost $210,000 from over 6,600 people to pretence security costs for Blasey Ford, who has moved out of her house due threats against her and her bloodline. The description, which has 29,000 shares on Facebook, begins:
Due to death intimations, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (who uses “Dr. Blasey” professionally) and her family take had to leave their residence and arrange for private security. Let’s create a store to cover her security expenses, to do just a bit to make it easier for women in her circumstances to come forward despite great risks. If we raise more than Dr. Blasey desiderata, extra funds will go to women’s organizations and/or into an account to overspread similar costs incurred in comparable situations.
The campaign was created on Sept. 18, with a purpose of raising $175,000, and stopped accepting donations on Sept. 20. The framer of the campaign said, “I am working with Dr. Blasey Ford and her representatives to secure a responsible transfer of funds.”
During a break after Blasey Ford’s claim, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Kavanaugh’s most outspoken stand behinds, told reporters: “I don’t know who paid for her polygraph but somebody did.”
Blasey Ford’s Queens said during the testimony that her legal team is working on a pro bono footing and that they paid for the polygraph test, “as is routine.”
One of the GoFundMe messengers mentioning Blasey Ford was for an campaign, called “We Believe Women,” which stimulated over $46,000 to take out a full-page newspaper ad.
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