I wanted to address those people who feel skittish about contributing to campaigns now for fear of backing the wrong horse before the Democratic primary. One reason I picked the candidates I did is because of the way the money is being spent.
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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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