Doing the math on Portland is a simple task.
You figure around 1k protesters. They stay at local hotels. You can figure around 500 rooms being rented in the local area, at $75 per night. So $37.5k is spent nightly, or $262.5k weekly.
Food and beer money? Some suggest that pizza is bought in bulk fashion, or that 'gift-cards' from the burger operations are handed out. So you can figure from the 1k protest kids....$30k daily is spent in this fashion. That's $210k per week.
Then you come to the question of some 'upper' pills being handed out (milder forms of meth) and weed. My humble guess is that for the 1k kids....roughly $30 a day is spent on the pills and weed....equaling $30k a day, or $210k a week.
So to assemble the protest crowd....it's in the range of $700k a week.
Cash? In order to deny the Feds any tracking information....I would go and suggest that virtually all of this is being done (even at the hotels) in the form of cash. Some guy is walking around in the interest of the protest crowd, and probably carries $100k a day in cold hard cash in his pocket. He probably gets 'loaded' every morning, and that's his job.....walk around and settle up with pizza bills, buy weed and pills, and cover hotel costs.
So a month is costing $2.4-million? Yep.
You can watch the videos and this is mostly done at night....to confuse you on numbers. I don't think there's more than 1k.
Covering this from day one....to election day? You would need in excess of $14-million....in cash.
It just begs the question....who walks around and has $14-million being dispensed into cash?
