Last night at our @techsolidarity event, Scholten talked about how he'd been on the cusp of laying off campaign staff for lack of funds last autumn, when a tech check arrived from out of nowhere and saved him. In the last quarter of 2017, Scholten outraised Steve King himself.
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Your Great Slate donations are giving candidates from outside the political establishment a chance to get past the exclusionary campaign finance racket and run on merit. Someone like Scholten is a fantastic politician, but how is he supposed to raise $250K in rural Iowa?
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We're doing this fundraising now because we have to get to the candidates early, before they're knocked out or priced out of their races by the rich and well-connected. This is our last quarter before the primaries. Please give, and keep up the momentum!https://secure.actblue.com/donate/great_slate …
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We've got until Saturday to bank donations before the reporting period closes. After that, a lot of follow-on donations and endorsements will be decided on which candidates look 'viable'. Everyone's working from the same Excel spreadsheet, and we have to goose the numbers in it
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Just made a donation to support his campaign. Thanks for providing the nudge.
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so you literally supported a candidate because a writer doesn’t like him ‘murica
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