We have people of real talent running in competitive races. All of us enjoy watching the Presidential contest, but when it comes to giving money, the greatest good you can do is further down the ticket—freeing capable candidates from the endless grind of fundraising calls
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We've raised nearly $50K per candidate as of tonight. That's the equivalent of a senior staff position, or a major digital outreach effort, they don't have to fundraise for. The money gets spent locally in places the Democratic party has never seriously invested in before
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This chart from the Washington Post says it all. The entire budget for a rural House race is something like $4M. Helping with that fundraising burden means a different kind of candidate—someone who has not had a lucrative law or business career—can run.pic.twitter.com/fdJoNcoNFq
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In our case, the candidates are a COBOL coding sociologist, a retired baseball player, a veteran who once delivered pizzas and cut the grass on golf courses, and a former waitress and copy shop manager. Not a Harvard grad or private school kid among them.
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