Anything you found inspirational in 2018 (like lots of small donors backing charismatic candidates like Beto or Ojeda) is going to be efficiently monetized and exploited in 2020. This was like the 'blog era' of online fundraising; get ready for "Facebook acquires ActBlue"
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The system for spending campaign money is so awful, and the key players in it so irredeemably corrupt, that pouring more money into it is just gasoline on a bonfire. We only got away with a quirky effort like the Great Slate because of the element of surprise. Winter is coming.
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Also if you're a VC interested in electech or the political blockchain, call me!
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Oh, just to make you feel worse—as a political fundraiser, you know the thing I found works best? Massive Twitter drama. You will raise easily 10x the money from an online freakout that you would from a real event with real people. Context-free high dudgeon = $$$$. Enjoy 2020!
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Let me give you a specific example. In December 2017, I rented an entire Unitarian church in NYC and flew three candidates out for a fundraiser. It cost me about $4K, and raised $30K. Then I posted about it on Twitter, and someone called me a liar...https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/942584432854228992 …
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Pinboard @PinboardI want to share two photos from yesterday's fundraiser. In a bout of optimism, I had rented out an entire Manhattan church. Two days before the event, I had only 20 RSVPs. And yet the people in this room listened to a slate of first-time candidates and donated over $30K pic.twitter.com/Wi1BGGFuNmShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
This person's account was later suspended. His tweet calling me a liar raised 3x more money than the event he was trying to debunk. The lesson here is: never do events, just get into tweetfights. But the people in that church represented valuable political capacity, unlike tweetspic.twitter.com/5W2KtktjwL
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Anyway, if you're outraged by all this (as you should be!), donate to the Great Slate. And be sure to RT.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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