Every couple of weeks in much of 2019 and 2020, a Milwaukee retiree named Janet Seizyk sent a couple hundred dollars or so to Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz‘ reelection campaign in Northwest Florida. So did retiree Jeffrey Steinkamp of Rochester, Vermont. Sometimes retiree Susan Brunoff of New Holland, Pa., would only send $35 or $50, but sometimes she’d send as much as $800. Retiree Phillip Barnes of Suffolk, Virginia, only sent modest amounts, usually $50 checks, but like clockwork, twice a month. Retiree Hugh Bancroft of Rancho Santa Fe, California — of the family that once controlled Dow Jones and Co. — sent monthly $1,000 checks to Gaetz.