What it comes down to is whether the campaigns are building capacity. Any dollar spent on field organizing, canvassing, knocking doors, and registering voters is transferable to whatever candidate wins the primary. And contested primaries are healthy!
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What we've been bad at in rural districts is this kind of capacity building. Nothing persists across elections, so everyone running starts from scratch. Campaigns burn all their effort on fundraising, not organizing. The kind of early money we've raised can change that dynamic.
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There is an entire parasitic consultant class whose livelihood depends on hoovering up campaign money. They run the casino. The DCCC demands that candidates spend hours a day on the phone, fundraising, and rate people on $ raised per hour. It's ugly.
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The goal of our experiment here is to see what happens when candidates have the luxury of putting no-strings money into field work and canvassing a year in advance. If it works, it will benefit whoever is running. If it doesn't—well, at least we tried something.
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My goal in meeting candidates in person was to make sure they were planning to spend all we could raise on capacity-building, not consultants or ads. So don't feel stressed about the primaries. This funding will carry over to any nominee.https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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How many are facing Republicans who went without significant challenge last cycle?
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@BryanWeaverDC have you been following what@Pinboard has been up to with the#greatslate ? It is good old fashion organizinghttps://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/947301723072208896 … -
I have not! But I will now...my kinda social/political experiment!
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@kathleenhkane you should check out this thread and probably donate!
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