The rules around what fundraising is bad, and what fundraising is good, are incredibly baroque and show the pressing need to fix the campaign finance system. This cannot be done by kneecapping the reformist candidates who have to run against self-funded billionaires.https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1232096605089611776 …
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The attacks on fundraising feed on a deeper mistrust of politics, and a correct folk assessment that corporate America and the wealthy have captured the political process. But they haven't captured it by making $2,800 individual donations to a populist candidate at a dinner party
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The way to get campaign finance reform is to *fundraise like hell* for people who will push it through Congress once in power. I guarantee you that no one burns with a deeper hatred for the current campaign finance system than candidates for Federal office.
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