A Tennessee woman who has allegedly donated to far-left PAC ActBlue evaded questions from The Tennessee Star Thursday.
The Star reported Thursday morning that a Nashville-area woman named Martha Wettemann has made 1,151 contributions to ActBlue since the beginning of 2023, totaling about $29,000.
Wettemann appears to be a left-wing activist. According to her Facebook page, she has previously supported left-wing causes like Moms Demand Action—Tennessee, a gun control group.
After numerous attempts to contact Wetteman (pictured above, left), The Star reached her on Thursday afternoon.
During a brief phone call, she became flustered.
After The Star explained its investigation into ActBlue, Wettemann was asked whether she had, in fact, made 1,151 to ActBlue for a total of $29,000.
“I don’t know,” she said.
“We just need to confirm that you made 1,151 donations to Act Blue since January 1, 2023,” The Star said in reply. “That would seem to be something that you would know.”
“I’m going to work now,” she said. “I’ll just have to talk to you later.”
She then hung up the phone.
The Star has been chronicling “ghost donors” who have made more than 1,000 individual contributions to ActBlue since the beginning of 2023.
Expanding that filter to her entire lifespan as a donor to ActBlue, Wettemann has allegedly made 7,044 individual contributions to ActBlue, totaling $79,339.72 since 2006. She has made donations of as little as 50 cents on multiple occasions during this time.
Wetteman serves as the District 5 director for the Tennessee State Employees Association, a union for state employees.
According to FEC records of her contributions, she is employed as a statistical supervisor for the State of Tennessee.
ActBlue is facing increased scrutiny about potentially laundering foreign donations or other nefarious donations through unknowing people who have given legitimately to the PAC at some point but are now being used as “ghost donors.” ActBlue has also been flagged for suspiciously not collecting three-digit security CVV codes from donors’ credit cards, which, in theory, means that donations could be made with prepaid debit cards.
The Star’s investigation is ongoing.
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Peter D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Peter on Twitter/X.
Photo “Martha Wettemann” by Frank Einstein.
