Title: AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems
Headings: AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems
Politics
AARP Is Officially Nonpartisan but Group Officials’ Money Mostly Goes to Dems

Content: Board member Beth Ellard gave $100 to Act Blue in 2018; board member Lloyd Johnson gave $450 to Clinton and $100 to Act Blue. At the executive level of AARP, former Senior Executive Vice President Joyce Rogers contributed $1,000 to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and $500 to Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), plus $11,750 to Clinton and other Democrats. Another vice president, Daphne Kwok, gave $12,207 to Clinton and other Democrats. Other AARP officials giving in 2016 and 2018 to Democrats included Martin Burns, the group’s manager of political intelligence. Burns gave $1,250 to Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.), plus $350 to Act Blue. Clinton received another $750 from AARP Senior Strategic Policy Adviser Andrea Brassard, who also gave $492 to Act Blue, while Deborah Chalfie, an AARP senior legislative representative, made multiple gifts to Democratic candidates, totaling $4,135. The AARP said in a statement to The Epoch Times on July 22 that the group “is completely nonpartisan and does not make any financial contributions to any political candidates, office holders or parties, nor does the organization endorse any political candidates, office holders or parties.” The statement continued: “ AARP does not preclude its employees, including board members, from exercising their personal right to participate in the political process.