Democratic Fundraising Gets Shriller And Shriller As Party Abandons Candidates

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http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/democratic-fundraising-gets-shriller-and-shriller-party-abandons-candidates




No American who ever responded to a political pitch is safe these days. If you’ve replied to online petitions or fundraising e-mails, you’ve experienced the deluge-turned-flood of begging. And it has only gotten worse. You’ve probably been scolded for not stepping up, reminded when you last gave, and even urged by party leaders to poke your finger in the enemy's eye—by giving more money.

“Boehner’s gonna be FURIOUS,” said the first of Tuesday’s serial e-mail bombardments from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which focuses on U.S. House races and refers to Republican House Speaker John Boehner. “THIS MORNING: Boehner’s corporate allies launched a massive $17 million ad blitz. (That’s their biggest -- BY FAR -- of the election.) Boehner’s goal? Winning the largest Congressional majority in decades.”

The DCCC wants you to believe it has a plan. It includes “triple matches” from other donors. A stopwatch starts counting down the seconds you have left to ruin the Speaker’s day. Ninety minutes later, another e-mail arrives. “Speaker Boehner was riding high this morning, but he’s going to have an absolute meltdown if the Triple-Match lets us come all the way back.”

There is so much wrong with this picture. And it’s not just about partisan bragging rights that come after midnight Wednesday, when the last federal fundraising period before the election ends. Americans are now in the season of political money talk—the shameless pursuit of fundraising by any means. It’s also the season of political money talking, or how those funds are being spent—including ways that aren’t advertised by professional beggars like the DCCC, which, as Wednesday’s New York Times pointed out, is abandoning candidates on the party’s bench in droves.

[riqster]

1. Ya know, maybe Obama was right about Wasserman-Schulz.

[belzabubba333]

2. what did he say about dws?

i heard her on the stephanie miller show laughing at people who wanted dems to look at vote rigging - called them conspiracy theorists

[riqster]

3. Scuttlebutt a while back about his not being happy with her efforts.

Conflicting stories on the matter, too:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/democrats-debbie-wasserman-schultz-111077.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/19/debbie-wasserman-schultzs-awkward-day-with-party-leaders/

[belzabubba333]

5. thanks

[hobbit709]

4. I quit giving money to the national party clowns a long time ago.

I give to candidates of my choosing.
And I certainly won't give money because DW-S wants me to panic. She lost all credibility as a D when she endorsed R's over D's in Fla.

[riqster]

6. I have never given to a party and never will. I support candidates and issues and GOTV.

[rjsquirrel]

7. I've given thousands of dollars

to dems over the last decade.

But I resolved to never give another dime (with the exception being Bernie Sanders) until Pres. Obama parsons Ed Snowden.

I tell the few dem fundraisers who still haven't gotten my point and stopped pestering me (or who go straight to my spam folder without me seeing them) that I'm a bigger fan of Snowden than of any elected official, and I send my money to medical charities instead.

I'm to the left of the left, at the point where it converges with some on the right over civil liberties. The democratic party barely represents me and often betrays me. Better than republicsns? Sure, like TB is better than Ebola.

I live in a safe blue state where the democratic machine is as corrupt as republicans are in one party red states, and as much servants of corporate interests. The state dems here disgust me. I will not vote for them.

So fuck the national party too, until it rediscovers its identity. They must not need my money since they do almost nothing to earn my loyalty.

Pardon Snowden, prosecute some bankers and torturers, stop dropping bombs and giving away the farm to corporations, and get back to after that about my money.

[IdaBriggs]

8. Welcome to DU!

[madokie]

9. Maybe its internal polling

shows the races they've pulled resources out of are going to be won by the democratic candidate and they want to use what money they have in more dire districts.

[NaturalHigh]

10. I'm fortunate that my spam filter catches most fundraiser e-mails.

Maybe it's set up to look for "WE NEED YOUR HELP RIGHT NOW!" in the subject line.