A nice illustration of how PACs are a legal form of grift comes this month from Brianna Wu's RebellionPAC, a "Clean PAC fighting for progressive, working class values across the country." Like everyone else, RebellionPAC cleaned up in Q3, bringing in over $150K in donations
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Scratch any progressive PAC and this is the pattern you'll find. They are limited by law in what they can give to candidates, but limited only by a sense of decorum and shame in what they can pay themselves. Please give directly to campaigns! (source: https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/093/202010159295161093/202010159295161093.pdf …)
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Share any progressive PAC you've given to in the thread and I can try to help you figure out how the money is being spent. My frustration stems from having to compete against these people to get small-dollar donations into the hands of actual candidates who need to win
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5K on email lists? Like sending emails? o.O
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Renting email lists and access to NGP VAN, the huge Democratic Party voter database.
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So basically "GoFundMe"
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