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Republican Donors Line Up For Brooke Pinto
Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto shot out of the gate in her bid to become D.C.’s next congressional delegate, reporting more than $843,000 in donations received between October, when she announced her candidacy, and December of last year. Pinto noted in February, when her campaign filed its year-end finance report, that she’d received donations from more than 1,000 people across all eight wards in the District. But a deeper look at Pinto’s donors shows that a significant number of them have a history of donating to Republican candidates and committees that support them. Federal Election Commission data indicates that Pinto’s donors have given more than $2.3 million to Republicans, and five of her donors collectively have donated at least $30,000 to President Donald Trump’s campaigns. “Brooke Pinto’s Q4 FEC report reads like a who’s who of Republican insiders,” says Roger Limoges, campaign spokesperson for At-Large Councilmember Robert White, one of Pinto’s opponents in the June primary. “Her campaign pulled in $170,000 from donors who regularly fund hard-line GOP candidates and Donald Trump,” Limoges continues. “It’s hard to explain why a Democratic candidate for delegate seeking to represent D.C. would actively court money from the same network backing politicians who consistently attack our city and the people who live here. It begs the question: What was her fundraising pitch to these GOP donors and what did she commit to doing for them if elected?” A spokesperson for Pinto’s campaign initially promised to send an emailed response to City Paper’s questions, but did not do so before press time. Shortly after this story published, her campaign spokesperson, Drew Godinich, sent a statement via text: “In Congress, Brooke Pinto will do what she has over her entire career—work with anyone to drive down costs for housing, improve DC schools and educational opportunity, and make our streets and neighborhoods safer for everyone. Unlike Robert White, she will work with anyone who is interested in improving the lives of District residents. “Robert White has spent a decade on Council doing the bidding of his biggest donors, and as the Housing Chair, he has driven our city into the affordability crisis we find ourselves in today,” Godinich said. Pinto, who was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, has had to fend off questions about her and her family’s ties to Republicans since her first campaign for the D.C. Council in 2020. At the time, opposition researchers were passing around a photo of her and her family attending a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. She told City Paper back then that she and her family are “longtime Democratic supporters and have contributed to various candidates long before I pursued my own interest in politics and career path in DC. “I am not a member of Mar-a-Lago, actively campaigned for Hillary Clinton, and will do everything I can to ensure the Democratic nominee wins in the November election,” she said via email in 2020. In D.C., 75 percent of registered voters are Democrats, according to the most recent data from the D.C. Board of Elections; only about 5 percent of residents are registered as Republicans. “I hope that doesn’t come back to haunt her,” says Georgetown Inn managing partner Nayan Patel, who has donated $7,000 to Pinto’s campaign—the max allowed under federal law (individuals can give a candidate up to $3,500 per election). Patel donated a total of about $14,000 to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and has given more than $32,000 to Republicans, FEC data shows. He’s also donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “I’ve given money to Democratic presidential candidates and Republican candidates. I try to support people who I think are good people,” Patel says of his political contribution strategy. “Sometimes I’m wrong. I’m not always right.” He says his donations to Pinto aren’t necessarily a reflection of his views on White. But over the years, he’s gotten to know Pinto, who represents the ward where his hotel is located. Patel recalls a time when she helped resolve a power outage at one of his buildings. “I can’t even get that done for my house,” he says of the speedy constituent service. “She picked up the phone and was always responsive, and I really appreciate politicians who do that. “I think she’s just a good human being,” Patel adds. “And I try to support people who are good human beings.” While some of Pinto’s donors are prolific Republican contributors, others arguably could be hedging their bets. Local developer Warren Williams, for example, has donated a total of $3,300 to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, according to FEC data, but most of his political contributions at the federal level have gone to Democrats. And Washingtonian publisher and CEO Catherine Merrill has donated more than $6,000 to Republicans, including Paul Ryan, Virginia Foxx, Rudy Giuliani, and the D.C. Republican Committee Federal Campaign Committee; she’s also given to Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and the Anti-Psychopath PAC, which funded attack ads questioning Trump’s mental fitness for office, FEC data shows. Other donors are more generous in their support of GOP politicians. Alan Breed, the co-president of the investment firm Edgewood Management, donated $7,000 to Pinto’s campaign—$3,500 for the primary and $3,500 for the general election. Breed, who lists addresses in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, on his campaign contributions filings, gave $100,000 to the Trump 47 joint fundraising committee, according to FEC data. He’s also donated to Trump’s Never Surrender Inc., the Republican National Committee, and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, whose priorities include denaturalizing convicted felons, supporting the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers, and using the U.S. military against citizens in moments of unrest. Breed did not respond to an email. Brooke Brogan, an executive for Mission Group, which owns a handful of bars and restaurants in D.C., donated $2,000 to Pinto. She has also donated $1,000 to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and has given to the National Republican Congressional Committee, to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign, and to Morgan Ortagus, who in 2022 was removed from the ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party because she hadn’t voted in three of the previous four statewide primaries. Trump later named Ortagus as a U.S. envoy to the Middle East. Brogan’s husband, Fritz Brogan, co-founded Mission Group and has worked as a GOP operative. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the chair of Maverick PAC, a committee dedicated to supporting conservative young professionals and candidates. Michael Gewirz, a principal at Potomac Investment Properties, donated $1,000 to Pinto, according to FEC filings, and a total of $1,990 to Trump. Republicans on Gewirz’s donor list include Ted Cruz, Laura Loomer, Nancy Mace, Mitch McConnell, and Matt Gaetz, the former Florida rep and Trump ally who has been accused of having sex with an underage girl, using illicit drug, and misusing campaign funds. Federal investigators found evidence that Gaetz paid women in exchange for sex, though he has never faced charges and has denied all wrongdoing. He resigned in 2024, shortly before a House Ethics Committee would have released a report on the allegations. (Gewirz’s donation to Gaetz is dated Jan. 22, 2021, just a few months before the DOJ’s investigation was publicly reported.) White, for his part, has received donations from people with ties to Trump and Republicans, too. Local developer Douglas Jemal, for example, gave $1,000 to White’s congressional campaign; Jemal has also given generously to Trump and Republicans in 2016 and 2020, and has been a prolific donor to candidates of both parties over the years. In 2021, as Trump was about to leave office after his first term, he pardoned Jemal of a 2006 conviction for wire fraud. Jemal shows up as a boogeyman in the mayor’s race too. Supporters of Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George’s campaign have highlighted Jemal’s donations to Kenyan McDuffie as the two trade jabs in the contest to replace Mayor Muriel Bowser. Other notable donors to Pinto’s campaign include former Republican D.C. Councilmember David Catania, as well as former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn, both Democrats. Lauren Penneys, a senior vice president at the tech company Palantir, gave Pinto $250. The company co-founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and others held a total of $128 million worth of federal contracts as of September 2025, according to the Washington Post. Penneys oversees those operations, including Palantir’s work with ICE. In April, the company was awarded a new $30 million contract to build “ImmigrationOS” to help the Trump administration “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants, the Guardian reports. Penneys defended the company’s contracts during a podcast interview last year, saying its work with the Department of Homeland Security started under the Obama administration after two agents were killed. Most of their work, she said, is focused on helping Homeland Security Investigations, which is an agency within ICE. ICE and other federal agents’ partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department officers has become an issue in the delegate’s race. Last month, White and Pinto introduced competing bills that sought to shed light on the actions of federal agents, who often wear masks covering their faces and are unaccountable to local officials. Both bills ultimately passed, prompting the release of body-camera footage this week, but not before the candidates sparred over whose bill came first, and whose was better. This story has been updated with comment from Brooke Pinto’s campaign.
Republican Donors Line Up For Brooke Pinto
Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto shot out of the gate in her bid to become D.C.’s next congressional delegate, reporting more than $843,000 in donations received between October, when she announced her candidacy, and December of last year. Pinto noted in February, when her campaign filed its year-end finance report, that she’d received donations from more than 1,000 people across all eight wards in the District. But a deeper look at Pinto’s donors shows that a significant number of them have a history of donating to Republican candidates and committees that support them. Federal Election Commission data indicates that Pinto’s donors have given more than $2.3 million to Republicans, and five of her donors collectively have donated at least $30,000 to President Donald Trump’s campaigns. “Brooke Pinto’s Q4 FEC report reads like a who’s who of Republican insiders,” says Roger Limoges, campaign spokesperson for At-Large Councilmember Robert White, one of Pinto’s opponents in the June primary. “Her campaign pulled in $170,000 from donors who regularly fund hard-line GOP candidates and Donald Trump,” Limoges continues. “It’s hard to explain why a Democratic candidate for delegate seeking to represent D.C. would actively court money from the same network backing politicians who consistently attack our city and the people who live here. It begs the question: What was her fundraising pitch to these GOP donors and what did she commit to doing for them if elected?” A spokesperson for Pinto’s campaign initially promised to send an emailed response to City Paper’s questions, but did not do so before press time. Shortly after this story published, her campaign spokesperson, Drew Godinich, sent a statement via text: “In Congress, Brooke Pinto will do what she has over her entire career—work with anyone to drive down costs for housing, improve DC schools and educational opportunity, and make our streets and neighborhoods safer for everyone. Unlike Robert White, she will work with anyone who is interested in improving the lives of District residents. “Robert White has spent a decade on Council doing the bidding of his biggest donors, and as the Housing Chair, he has driven our city into the affordability crisis we find ourselves in today,” Godinich said. Pinto, who was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, has had to fend off questions about her and her family’s ties to Republicans since her first campaign for the D.C. Council in 2020. At the time, opposition researchers were passing around a photo of her and her family attending a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. She told City Paper back then that she and her family are “longtime Democratic supporters and have contributed to various candidates long before I pursued my own interest in politics and career path in DC. “I am not a member of Mar-a-Lago, actively campaigned for Hillary Clinton, and will do everything I can to ensure the Democratic nominee wins in the November election,” she said via email in 2020. In D.C., 75 percent of registered voters are Democrats, according to the most recent data from the D.C. Board of Elections; only about 5 percent of residents are registered as Republicans. “I hope that doesn’t come back to haunt her,” says Georgetown Inn managing partner Nayan Patel, who has donated $7,000 to Pinto’s campaign—the max allowed under federal law (individuals can give a candidate up to $3,500 per election). Patel donated a total of about $14,000 to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, and has given more than $32,000 to Republicans, FEC data shows. He’s also donated to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “I’ve given money to Democratic presidential candidates and Republican candidates. I try to support people who I think are good people,” Patel says of his political contribution strategy. “Sometimes I’m wrong. I’m not always right.” He says his donations to Pinto aren’t necessarily a reflection of his views on White. But over the years, he’s gotten to know Pinto, who represents the ward where his hotel is located. Patel recalls a time when she helped resolve a power outage at one of his buildings. “I can’t even get that done for my house,” he says of the speedy constituent service. “She picked up the phone and was always responsive, and I really appreciate politicians who do that. “I think she’s just a good human being,” Patel adds. “And I try to support people who are good human beings.” While some of Pinto’s donors are prolific Republican contributors, others arguably could be hedging their bets. Local developer Warren Williams, for example, has donated a total of $3,300 to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, according to FEC data, but most of his political contributions at the federal level have gone to Democrats. And Washingtonian publisher and CEO Catherine Merrill has donated more than $6,000 to Republicans, including Paul Ryan, Virginia Foxx, Rudy Giuliani, and the D.C. Republican Committee Federal Campaign Committee; she’s also given to Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and the Anti-Psychopath PAC, which funded attack ads questioning Trump’s mental fitness for office, FEC data shows. Other donors are more generous in their support of GOP politicians. Alan Breed, the co-president of the investment firm Edgewood Management, donated $7,000 to Pinto’s campaign—$3,500 for the primary and $3,500 for the general election. Breed, who lists addresses in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut, on his campaign contributions filings, gave $100,000 to the Trump 47 joint fundraising committee, according to FEC data. He’s also donated to Trump’s Never Surrender Inc., the Republican National Committee, and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, whose priorities include denaturalizing convicted felons, supporting the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers, and using the U.S. military against citizens in moments of unrest. Breed did not respond to an email. Brooke Brogan, an executive for Mission Group, which owns a handful of bars and restaurants in D.C., donated $2,000 to Pinto. She has also donated $1,000 to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and has given to the National Republican Congressional Committee, to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign, and to Morgan Ortagus, who in 2022 was removed from the ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party because she hadn’t voted in three of the previous four statewide primaries. Trump later named Ortagus as a U.S. envoy to the Middle East. Brogan’s husband, Fritz Brogan, co-founded Mission Group and has worked as a GOP operative. From 2017 to 2022, he served as the chair of Maverick PAC, a committee dedicated to supporting conservative young professionals and candidates. Michael Gewirz, a principal at Potomac Investment Properties, donated $1,000 to Pinto, according to FEC filings, and a total of $1,990 to Trump. Republicans on Gewirz’s donor list include Ted Cruz, Laura Loomer, Nancy Mace, Mitch McConnell, and Matt Gaetz, the former Florida rep and Trump ally who has been accused of having sex with an underage girl, using illicit drug, and misusing campaign funds. Federal investigators found evidence that Gaetz paid women in exchange for sex, though he has never faced charges and has denied all wrongdoing. He resigned in 2024, shortly before a House Ethics Committee would have released a report on the allegations. (Gewirz’s donation to Gaetz is dated Jan. 22, 2021, just a few months before the DOJ’s investigation was publicly reported.) White, for his part, has received donations from people with ties to Trump and Republicans, too. Local developer Douglas Jemal, for example, gave $1,000 to White’s congressional campaign; Jemal has also given generously to Trump and Republicans in 2016 and 2020, and has been a prolific donor to candidates of both parties over the years. In 2021, as Trump was about to leave office after his first term, he pardoned Jemal of a 2006 conviction for wire fraud. Jemal shows up as a boogeyman in the mayor’s race too. Supporters of Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George’s campaign have highlighted Jemal’s donations to Kenyan McDuffie as the two trade jabs in the contest to replace Mayor Muriel Bowser. Other notable donors to Pinto’s campaign include former Republican D.C. Councilmember David Catania, as well as former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Ohio House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn, both Democrats. Lauren Penneys, a senior vice president at the tech company Palantir, gave Pinto $250. The company co-founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and others held a total of $128 million worth of federal contracts as of September 2025, according to the Washington Post. Penneys oversees those operations, including Palantir’s work with ICE. In April, the company was awarded a new $30 million contract to build “ImmigrationOS” to help the Trump administration “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants, the Guardian reports. Penneys defended the company’s contracts during a podcast interview last year, saying its work with the Department of Homeland Security started under the Obama administration after two agents were killed. Most of their work, she said, is focused on helping Homeland Security Investigations, which is an agency within ICE. ICE and other federal agents’ partnership with the Metropolitan Police Department officers has become an issue in the delegate’s race. Last month, White and Pinto introduced competing bills that sought to shed light on the actions of federal agents, who often wear masks covering their faces and are unaccountable to local officials. Both bills ultimately passed, prompting the release of body-camera footage this week, but not before the candidates sparred over whose bill came first, and whose was better. This story has been updated with comment from Brooke Pinto’s campaign.