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Open Thread – Even Republicans Like HR1

by Cheryl Rofer|  March 29, 20216:04 pm| 49 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Political Fundraising

The New Yorker got a copy of a conference call between a policy adviser to Senator Mitch McConnell and the leaders of several prominent conservative groups, including one run by the Koch brothers’ network. The gist of the call was that many conservative voters like HR1, the voting rights bill, and there’s not much messaging that works against it. The article has the audio.

The participants conceded that the bill, which would stem the flow of dark money from such political donors as the billionaire oil magnate Charles Koch, was so popular that it wasn’t worth trying to mount a public-advocacy campaign to shift opinion. Instead, a senior Koch operative said that opponents would be better off ignoring the will of American voters and trying to kill the bill in Congress.

They describe an AOC-related message that seemed to move voters a bit, but I can’t figure out what it means. They admit it doesn’t make sense. They also think lying might work, claiming that the ACLU and Planned Parenthood oppose the bill when they have criticized parts of it.

Of most concern in the bill is the limitation of dark money and identification of donors. Why, that might open them to harassment! Republicans get more dark money than Democrats do.

And here is some information to help illuminate a particularly West Virginian mystery.

With so little public support, the bill’s opponents have already begun pressuring individual senators. On March 20th, several major conservative groups, including Heritage Action, Tea Party Patriots Action, Freedom Works, and the local and national branches of the Family Research Council, organized a rally in West Virginia to get Senator Joe Manchin, the conservative Democrat, to come out against the legislation. They also pushed Manchin to oppose any efforts by Democrats to abolish the Senate’s filibuster rule, a tactical step that the Party would probably need to take in order to pass the bill. “The filibuster is really the only thing standing in the way of progressive far-left policies like H.R. 1, which is Pelosi’s campaign to take over America’s elections,” Noah Weinrich, the press secretary at Heritage Action, declared during a West Virginia radio interview. On Thursday, Manchin issued a statement warning Democrats that forcing the measure through the Senate would “only exacerbate the distrust that millions of Americans harbor against the U.S. government.”

Open thread!

Open Thread – Even Republicans Like HR1Post + Comments (49)

Four Directions: I Should Have Asked DougJ for Song Lyrics

by WaterGirl|  December 22, 20202:11 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Georgia Runoff Races, Political Fundraising

DougJ asked if I would put up a fundraising thread for Four Directions.

Four Directions (ballot access for Native people)

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They are doing good stuff in GA too, and the money we give them goes a long way.

In case you missed it, this is a great story passed on to us from gkoutnik at the end of October:

A few days ago, Doug put up a fundraising post for Four Directions, a GOTV organization “dedicated to getting Native Americans to the polls.” I thought it was a good idea (everybody votes!) and donated, and then the link appeared in comments the next day. I thought it was still a good idea and added a little more.

Yesterday I got a phone call from Lewis Cohen, Finance Director for Four Directions, thanking me for the donation. Then he said, “Let me ask you what may seem to be a strange question, but… where did you hear about us?”

Turns out they had a big spike in donations, mostly from some place called “Balloon Juice.” They had no idea who we were or how we found them. I described BJ as best I could (that was interesting) and he again expressed his gratitude.

Their motto seems to be: “Advancing equality at the ballot box across Indian Country.” So – thanks, folks, from Indian Country.

Let’s make Mitch McConnell irrelevant.

Open thread.

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Gee but I thought I’d ask you just the same

by DougJ|  November 27, 20204:36 pm| 20 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

Let’s do some more fundraising and campaigning for the January 5th run off in Georgia.

There’s a new Stacey Abrams group that plans to register 10K new voters by Dec. 7. The New Georgia Project Action Fund

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Plus there’s all the stuff we talked about before.

Opportunities to Help with Georgia!
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Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.


Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.


Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.


Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 


Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 5
Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 


Donations

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff!

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!  

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She said I know what it’s like to be dead

by DougJ|  November 15, 20204:07 pm| 132 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

DEAD PEOPLE VOTED is probably my favorite stupid right-wing meme.

Austen Fletcher, a former Ivy League football player turned right-wing internet journalist, said in videos posted to Twitter that he had discovered registration documents on a State of Michigan website that showed that four people with reported birth dates from 1900 to 1902 had submitted absentee ballots ahead of Tuesday’s election. “How long has this been going on?” he asked.

[…]

In one case, a 74-year-old woman in Hamlin Township, Mich., had asked for an absentee ballot for the first time in years, setting off a notice from the state’s digital voter rolls that her birth date was not on file, according to Catherine Lewis, the town’s clerk. The system had assigned the woman the default birth date: 01/01/01, or Jan. 1, 1901.

[….]

Then, on Thursday morning, after a marathon week for Ms. Lewis running the town’s vote, her phone began ringing. “I have had 18 calls and at least 20 strange emails asking me if I committed voter fraud,” she said. She was staying home with her family. “I need to be concerned about my family’s welfare,” she said.

Fuck all these clowns claiming voter fraud. They will all rot in hell. So we’ve got that going for us.

Let’s fight for Georgia. There are lots of things you can do.

Opportunities to Help with Georgia!
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Phone bank into Georgia with Fair Fight.


Phone bank into Georgia with the New Georgia Project.


Volunteer for Georgia with Vote Save America.


Write postcards for Georgia with the Georgia Postcard Project.

 


Write postcards for Georgia with Postcards to Voters.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 5
Write postcards for Georgia with Postcard Patriots.

 

Help With Georgia, and Listen to Stacey Abrams 4
Write letters to Georgia with VoteFWD.

 


Donations

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

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Donate to GASenate.com  (donations split evenly between Ossoff, Warnock, and Fair Fight)

Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 311,771, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)
YES this includes the 2018 race.

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate Runoff!  (starting at 27,997, hoping DougJ can do a new BJ thermometer for the recount)

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She said I know what it’s like to be deadPost + Comments (132)

The devil and Mr. Jones

by DougJ|  November 11, 20203:56 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

The Trump game plan is to gum things up with bogus lawsuits to give some state legislatures the cover to overturn the election results. One of the law firms he is working with is Jones Day, one of the largest firms in the world, which has clients like Verizon and GM. The Lincoln Project and others are suggesting that these clients be pressured to drop Jones Day unless the firm stops working with Trump. Any ideas on how to pressure them? I do have a Verizon phone plan.

Also too, let’s raise some money for Stacey Abrams’ ballot access group and for the two special elections in Georgia.

Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate

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Fair Fight (Stacey Abrams’ ballot access group)

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You’ve been so kind and generous

by DougJ|  November 8, 20201:11 pm| 59 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave. We raised 1.3 million this cycle.

It’s fair to say that the down ballot races didn’t go as well as hoped, despite tons of money pouring in. I’m going to think about what are the best causes to raise money for as we go forward (I’m also going to raise money for Warnock and Ossoff, yes). Here is one that really delivered: Stacey Abrams’ group Fair Fight. By my count, there were 49 states where things didn’t go as well as I’d hoped last week and ONE STATE where things went much better. That one state is Georgia. This group’s work in registering 800K new people and getting automatic registration passed almost certainly played a big role in Biden winning Georgia.

I hope there is a lot of thinking being done by lots of Democratic donors right now and that they are considering making Fair Fight, and other groups like it, a top priority.

Balloon Juice for Fair Fight

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And, remember, don’t gloat, organize.

You’ve been so kind and generousPost + Comments (59)

I keep holding on

by DougJ|  November 1, 20203:36 pm| 76 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

Our system is fucked up, yes.

Doing anything other than counting all legally cast ballots is not "a point" to be made. It would help our public discourse greatly if this crap is not recirculated. I'm only pushing back here because it was on a damn national news broadcast and is framed so poorly in this tweet https://t.co/jS1Lp60MZ0

— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 1, 2020

There’s going to be all kinds of shenanigans. I don’t think they’ll be enough to keep Biden from a pretty decisive victory. But, yes, is stresses me out a bit.

If you’d like to do any last minute stress giving, the two Georgia Senate races are a good place to give, because they are likely to go to run-offs.

Raphael Warnock, Georgia Senate (special election)

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Senate (regular election)

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Ballot access is *always* a good place to give and this is one is among our readers’ favorites.

Four Directions (ballot access for Native people)

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You can see everyone we are supporting here.

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